>>368667
William Adams actually WAS a samurai unlike Yasuke, though it was basically just on paper. Adams actually got a fief, making him landed and thus an actual samurai with a wife. He was still basically just a hostage Tokugawa kept around because Tokugawa liked him and he wanted Adams to help Japan enter the modern world of shipping. He was not allowed to leave. Yasuke got a small hut, a short sword (explicitly NOT a katana because that has significance) and he carried Nobunaga's bad sometimes. He was basically a slave. He probably pointed at him sometimes in company and said "look at this black guy I bought, isn't he weird?"