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.
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.