The Japanese depiction of the Moors from Portugal

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They look like servants tho:patrice:
Going off the research I'm finding to the best of my understading these men were lower ranking Moors/soldiers. These paintings take place in the 1500s. By the 1500s the Moors werent as powerful (they were relatively weak if anything but still had knowledge the Portugese wanted) in Portugal as they were a few centuries earlier. In the early 1500s Portugal made contact with Japan and started to trade and eventually started to import them as slaves so these men might have been low ranking Moors who were either soldiers, servants or merchants.

Again this is to the best of my understanding at the moment. I could be wrong. I'm still trying to find more info on this.
 
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They are depicted as servants.

Japan first contract with Portugal was in 1543 lmao, the Moors took over Spain in 711, think about that cap in time

The last Moorish City was captured by Spain in 1492 and the Spain didn't go to Japan to 1549

These people in those pictures aren't Moors

white supremacy is a myth, european dominance is a myth, they've only had power for a few hundred years and its already collapsed
 
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