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He was Nobunaga Oda’s chattel and an attachee with a Catholic Priest that Oda dragged around with him. One custom register between two fiefdoms mentions him once.
Sounds like a knockoff of James Clavell’s “Shogun”.
Interesting fact, are the Japanese trying to import more African-Americans to their country?
“First Black Samurai”
Never mind that. Who was the first Suzuki Samurai?
The only Black Samurai is Jim Kelly, and that’s that! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074213/
Was there a second?
I believe the correct term is fighter, warrior or bushi and NOT Samurai.
In Japanese lauguage, historical warriors are usually referred to as bushi (武士, [bɯ.ɕi]), meaning ‘warrior’, or buke (武家), meaning ‘military family’. According to translator William Scott Wilson: “In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning ‘to wait upon’, ‘accompany persons’ in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean ‘those who serve in close attendance to the nobility’, the Japanese term saburai being the nominal form of the verb.” According to Wilson, an early reference to the word saburai appears in the Kokin Wakashū, the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the early 900s.[5]
In modern usage, bushi is often used as a synonym for samurai;[6][7][8] however, historical sources make it clear that bushi and samurai were distinct concepts, with the former referring to soldiers or warriors and the latter referring instead to a kind of hereditary nobility.[9][10] The word samurai is now closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. These warriors were usually associated with a clan and their lord, and were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy. While these samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan’s population,[11] their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.