He did mention him, wanting him to join him as a retainer, let's be honest though it was probably as a curiosity and not as a honest thing. A pet isn't a samurai and doubt a samurai is just as easy to be. Fluent Japanese I also doubt since he'd have had someone to teach him, someone who doesn't share a language with him.
See reply below, I pretty much fell for BS for a couple years ago ^^"
In some of his writings, apparently...I even checked and couldn't find any direct sources of it weirdly enough.
I'd assume someone like that did exist, but probably more as a manservant who's brought by missionaries, maybe shown off. That he was more than a curiosity and some kinda samurai is retarded any anyone claiming such makes no sense. He's supposedly met him a couple months before Mitsuhide betrayed him. We don't even know if this guy was even there anymore. And making someone a samurai in that time? Yea, doubt.
I've wrote the first comment before I looked much deeper into it, I've noticed something interesting the original poster of the topic didn't even mention: Most of the sources on him are around 2015-2016ish, all very "afro-centric". That a black guy was there at the time in Japan I'd not rule out tough, but samurai I would categorically call bullshit we wuz samurai n shiete fantasies by the usual people.
It's actually kinda scary how since the early to mid 2010s we're having people claim BS without backing it up, it is very telling when all the sources I could find were around that time only, behind some paywalls or some book written by someone who's very much capital B black. Makes me think what other BS is being propagated.
It is kind of horrifying that people can pump a lot of BS out there, the BS circulates and ages and then becomes the source for further BS. Eventually the central claim is accepted as true.
I heard it called "injecting" in the past, though recently people have been using the term "information laundering". It used to be in the realm of intel agency psyops and astroturfing. It's how all mainstream news functions now.
He did mention him, wanting him to join him as a retainer, let's be honest though it was probably as a curiosity and not as a honest thing. A pet isn't a samurai and doubt a samurai is just as easy to be. Fluent Japanese I also doubt since he'd have had someone to teach him, someone who doesn't share a language with him.See reply below, I pretty much fell for BS for a couple years ago ^^"
Where did he mention him?
In some of his writings, apparently...I even checked and couldn't find any direct sources of it weirdly enough.
I'd assume someone like that did exist, but probably more as a manservant who's brought by missionaries, maybe shown off. That he was more than a curiosity and some kinda samurai is retarded any anyone claiming such makes no sense. He's supposedly met him a couple months before Mitsuhide betrayed him. We don't even know if this guy was even there anymore. And making someone a samurai in that time? Yea, doubt.
I've wrote the first comment before I looked much deeper into it, I've noticed something interesting the original poster of the topic didn't even mention: Most of the sources on him are around 2015-2016ish, all very "afro-centric". That a black guy was there at the time in Japan I'd not rule out tough, but samurai I would categorically call bullshit we wuz samurai n shiete fantasies by the usual people.
It's actually kinda scary how since the early to mid 2010s we're having people claim BS without backing it up, it is very telling when all the sources I could find were around that time only, behind some paywalls or some book written by someone who's very much capital B black. Makes me think what other BS is being propagated.
It is kind of horrifying that people can pump a lot of BS out there, the BS circulates and ages and then becomes the source for further BS. Eventually the central claim is accepted as true.
I heard it called "injecting" in the past, though recently people have been using the term "information laundering". It used to be in the realm of intel agency psyops and astroturfing. It's how all mainstream news functions now.