> the historical record agrees he was a hatamoto to oda nobunaga, a close retainer. you didn't have to be born a samurai and the japanese didn't care he was black. he impressed nobunaga with his fist fighting skill and that was how he was made samurai. yeah, all that shit was made up whole cloth by the lockley dude in the op. there is like, one page of actual primary source documentation about the dude and that shit ain't in it.
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