"I'll ask him, definitely. He needs some company that isn't businessmen. Dealing with those people can get really taxing."

On the topic of his name, though.

"Ah, yeah. Sorry about that." He sometimes forgets that people aren't as well read as him. "My name now - Kobayakawa Takakage - isn't my birth name. I was born as someone else. My father made us all change names before we left Japan." Why he did that is a story for another day, though.

"The historical guy, who has my name - he lived four centuries ago as the head of the Kobayakawa clan. He did lots of things, and his main claim to fame is for contributing a lot to ending the wars of his era. I'm actually a sort of descendant of his, through his eldest brother's line."

Genealogy is complicated.

"I've always wondered why my father did that. Maybe there's some karmic influence here."

He's had fun trying to derive all the parallels, but not all of them are good.

"Ah, sorry - this isn't too relevant to the situation. I was just... thinking about it, over these past few days."