Yasuke is the first known African to appear in Japanese historical records. Yasuke served Oda Nobunaga between 1581 and 1582, during the Sengoku period. He arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit Alessandro Valignano. Yasukan was granted a sword, a house and a stipend as a samurai. He fought at the Honn?-ji Incident until the death of Nobutada. There are no subsequent records of his life.