Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Yasuke The Black Samurai? Did He Really Exist?" video.

To be a samurai was an honour, but it came with MANY duties (even that of dying for the lord). To be in Nobunaga's inner circle WITHOUT being a samurai would have given him more freedom.
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There were differencies depending on period. Mind that originally a samurai was not a swordsman. It was a mounted archer that carried the tachi as a secondary weapon. The katana was just a sort of "civilian version" of the tachi. More suited to be worn while on foot. There was no particular symbolism tied to it. All the mysticism of the katana as the "soul of the samurai" started in the Edo period, AFTER tha sengoku period, when the samurai transitioned from a warrior class to a bureocratic class that only trained in dojos. In the sengoku era, it was VERY common to carry a sword. As a sign of recognition of their status, only the Samurai can carry the daisho, the long/short (katana and wakizashi) couple. During the Edo period laws were established to restrict sword ownership by class, limiting the classes lower than samurai to short swords (wakizashi).
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The Gotic kingdom was hardly distinguishable from the Empire. Practically nothing changed. The real change came with the Gotic wars, between the Goths and the Byzantines that depopulated Italy and completely changed the human and natural landscape.
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Samurai was a personal service, and the personal samurai of Nobunaga Oda should have committed seppuku after his death. Obviously it was common for a daymo to pass some of his samurai to his relatives, especially sons, if it was needed. He could do it at any time, even moments before his death, but it wouldn't have made sense in that occasion, since in the Honnō-ji incident Oda Nobunaga only had about 30 people with him, while Nobutata, already a famous general, had 2000 warriors with him, so he didn't really need the adjunctive "protection" Yasuke would have provided. It seems more probable that, not being a samurai, but being loyal to the Oda clan, with the death of Nobunaga, Yasuke reached Nobutada to help him in his last stand. But it can be speculated instead that, not wanting his friend to die there, and knowing that, for a Christian, suicide was a capital sin, Nobunaga had simply said to Yasuke "you are the samurai of Nobutada now".
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Adams was given samurai status by Ieyasu Tokugawa, with a surname (he was re-named Miura Anjin) and the daisho (the katana-wakizashi couple that only the samurai could bear). Later he was given an estate. It has to be said that Adams became a samurai when the class was transitioning from warrior class to bureocratic class. He had never been required to fight.
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