The "Life-saving Group" led by Ah Man was incredibly efficient. Nozawa had already gotten a detailed personal dossier on Shi Ami the moment he landed at Old Wanjin.
This man was indeed related by blood to Oda Nobunaga—a result of Oda Nobuhide's drunken indiscretion in his younger days. However, his mother was of very humble origins, merely a prostitute entertainer, so Nobuhide never publicly acknowledged him; Shi Ami was nothing more than Nobuhide's illegitimate son.
Oda Nobuhide didn't care much for this accident of a son, sending him to a temple to become a young monk at an early age. Shi Ami grew up in the temple, learning some poetry and chant, and after coming of age, returned to the Oda Danjo Chonosuke household to become a member of the Fellowship, specializing in "arts and entertainment."
