dastardly corporations are controlling my view of reality
for instance they want to trick me into thinking a guy who died 450 years ago was a samurai, even though all he did was carry around katanas and serve the daimyo Oda Nobunaga directly as his personal bodyguard
I mean tbf as far as I'm aware there's not much evidence he was a warrior or anything, I always thought he was essentially just a companion. Like "hey everybody look at this funny looking guy I picked up, we talk about philosophy sometimes"
That said, it still would be appropriate to refer to him as a samurai since that's pretty clearly what he was. The west still to this day has "knights" and they're not warriors either
IIRC, there is not direct evidence he was a samurai, but he held positions that were traditionally awarded to samurai, so we can reasonably assume he was a samurai.
dastardly corporations are controlling my view of reality
for instance they want to trick me into thinking a guy who died 450 years ago was a samurai, even though all he did was carry around katanas and serve the daimyo Oda Nobunaga directly as his personal bodyguard
Going to start calling hereditary Counts "the help." Since the word means "attendant"
I mean tbf as far as I'm aware there's not much evidence he was a warrior or anything, I always thought he was essentially just a companion. Like "hey everybody look at this funny looking guy I picked up, we talk about philosophy sometimes"
That said, it still would be appropriate to refer to him as a samurai since that's pretty clearly what he was. The west still to this day has "knights" and they're not warriors either
IIRC, there is not direct evidence he was a samurai, but he held positions that were traditionally awarded to samurai, so we can reasonably assume he was a samurai.