Talk:Heshikiri Hasebe/@comment-95.238.0.148-20150321235540/@comment-50.67.77.148-20150325073359

Well, I know meaning of this sentence but my Engligh is not that good...I will try my best.

It is like

[Despite of giving me the name, he (Oda Nobunaga) passed me to someone else who was not even a minister.]

命名 is giving name to sth.

直臣 means officers that have no other bosses except their lord. Generally they are the second highest class of the kindom.