動画の説明文に追加情報が載せてありますので、「…もっと見る」から一度見て頂ければ幸いです。 Additional information is included in the video description, and we hope you will take a look once you click on “...more”. 以下同じ追記です ※追記 (Additional information) 動画内の「ペット」という表現に対して、複数のネガティブなご意見を頂いております。 この部分に関しては日本人の感覚を完全に代表してないことをここに追記させて頂きます。 信長の弥助への対応は決して非人道的なものではありませんでした。 I have received several negative comments about the use of the word “pet” in the video. I would like to add that this part of the video is not fully representative of Japanese sensibilities. Nobunaga's handling of Yasuke was not at all inhumane. ※英訳へのコメントからの修正案(Proposed amendment to translation based on comments) ・「decorated short sword」→「decorated dagger」が適切ではないか。 ・「the Cathedral of Padre in India」→「the Christian temple (in Japan)」で傍にあった南蛮寺。 ・「slaves」と複数形になっている(完全に間違い)。奴隷に投石や重傷者が出たように誤解される。 →On the Monday following Easter, Nobunaga was in the capital, but there was a great commotion as many people gathered in front of the monastery to see the black slave, and some in the mob were wounded by stones thrown and some nearly died. ※英訳の修正案(Proposed amendment to translation based on internet) ・「飽きることなく」は前文にかかるのでは( note.com/just_eel601/n/n5bdd8116f483 ) Nobunaga himself was astonished to see him, and could not easily believe that he was a native black man and had not been inked. So Nobunaga never tired of looking at him again and again. The slave spoke a little Japanese, so Nobunaga had a conversation with him, and since he was powerful and could do a few tricks, Nobunaga was very pleased with his abilities. ・「飽きることなく」はもっと広くかかるのでは(同上追記) 信長自身も彼を見て驚き、生来の黒人で墨を塗ったのではないことを容易には信じられなかった。 そして信長は何度も見返しても、また少し日本語が話せた彼と会話しても、あるいは信長が好みの良い技を披露しても十分満足できなかった。 Nobunaga himself was astonished to see him and could not easily believe that he was a native black man and not inked. And Nobunaga was not satisfied enough to look him over often, or to converse with him, who could speak a little Japanese, or to demonstrate good skills that Nobunaga liked. ※コメントからの補足(Proposed amendment to explanation) ・信長公記は「しんちょうこうき」と読むのが正式だそうです ・「十人力」は「10人居れば1人は居る:人並」の意味もあるそうです ・「名をハ号弥助」は「名をば弥助と号す:弥助と名付けた」だそうです。8号さんじゃなかったw ・「健やかに器量なり」は正確には「健康で体格が良い」だそうです ・「インドのパードレの聖堂」は傍にあった日本の「南蛮寺」だそうです
I don't speak Japanese, but the English word "pet" I think is appropriate. When used on a person that way, it's attempting to be more affectionate than just "servant" or "slave". I don't think it's necessarily inhumane. Of course, calling him "pet" is also up to interpretation. Even I don't believe Yasuke was truly samurai, but it's also not entirely established that he was treated only as a commoner, or foreigner. The word "pet" is probably the best way to show that he was given favor, preferential treatment, by Nobunaga; but at the same time he wasn't exactly welcomed as Japanese, and therefore possibly samurai.
Also please note 器量也 was translated as good looking by Lockley but ancient use of the word means well built. Einfach Japanisch explained in his new video that and also Diary of Nobunaga isn't considered as the primary source document but somewhere in between primary and the secondary source. Also, Hirayama said the perspective of Akechi on Yasuke doesn't make Yasuke not a samurai but Yasuke's name wasn't included to the list of Nobunaga's retainers on Oda side either. A great hero samurai respected by the Japanese wasn't even included to their own people's list? How ironic. They can call Yasuke a samurai if they mean a sword bearer without famiy name. (Hirayama's claim on a samurai without a family name was also a false. The guy he brought up had indeed a last name)
I hope that this video gets spread around overseas. I think it's a great summary and honest as it doesn't seem to omit any known documents. And as a summary, it really shows how little was actually known about the man, and how much of what we think is just speculation/assumptions. I think that the amount of records about the man is also a pretty telling sign he was not influential or significant, as some would have us believe.
Yasuke was given a decorated short sword and a private house by Nobunaga. This shows that he was receiving special treatment.(luxury of decoration. not an apartment complex.) In the future, Yasuke had the possibility of becoming a tono-lord. However, it is believed that he was still a lower-ranking samurai, like a pageboy.(worked for only 1 year and 4 months)