What Is the Difference Between a Ninja and a Samurai?

What Is the Difference Between a Ninja and a Samurai?|||Ninja: a member of a feudal Japanese society of mercenary agents, highly trained in martial arts and stealth (ninjutsu), who were hired for covert purposes ranging from espionage to sabotage and assassination.





Samurai: a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan; a professional warrior belonging to the Japanese feudal military aristocracy.|||Funny to me how much misinformation is flying around here.





The samurai were an elite warrior class in Japan. They were noble by name and bloodline. Comparable only to the knights of medieval Europe. The samurai held and elite social rank and were very powerful and influential in Japanese society. Report Abuse
|||Samurai....fight re: honour and for their master


Ninja....Use whatever works to get the job done regardless|||ninjas are a lot cooler and will answer questios|||eeeeehhhhhhh





the one was a part of a class of elite warriors that pledged their life in service of their masters.


the other were a group of outlaws that used stealth and cunning as their main weapons


allthough it must be said that many samurai probably were part of ninja too.


The samurai were the official warriors of the lord that lived by a strict code of honor that forbade them from doing anything except of open and honourable combat.


for all other purpose the feudal lords (daymio) used ninja.


they were not all stealth assasins as portrayed in the hollywood movies. Ninja was a term to classify each kind of outlaw and misfit that could serve a purpose to a lord. They included thieves, spies, prostitutes and many others.|||In the history of Japan, a ninja was someone specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These included assassination, espionage, and other martial arts.


Their roles may have included sabotage, espionage, scouting and assassination missions as a way to destabilize and cause social chaos in enemy territory or against an opposing ruler, perhaps in the service of their feudal rulers (daimyo, shogun), or an underground ninja organization waging guerrilla warfare.





Samurai was a term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. The word %26quot;samurai%26quot; is derived from the archaic Japanese verb %26quot;samorau,%26quot; changed to %26quot;saburau,%26quot; meaning %26quot;to serve%26quot;; thus, a %26quot;samurai%26quot; is a servant, i.e. the servant of a lord.|||samurai were noblemen.. knights.. ninjas were assasins|||ninja is a turtle and samurai a goldfish ?%26gt; was I close ?|||Samurai, I think, literally means Servant of the Lord in ancient Japanese. They were well armed well trained warriors who protected their lords. They also were bound by a strict code of honor and were expected to follow and set an example for all other samurais.





Ninjas on the other hand are not the orthodox warriors. Nevertheless they are supposed to be equally good, especially when it comes to stealth. They mainly used it against samurai warriors because the Samurais were way better. I think this is where their actions differed from samurai tactics. Ninjas were trained in espionage and other martial arts, and also for assassination purposes.|||Samurai served their masters and followed the code of Bushido. They were well trained in sword fighting.


The Ninja were spys/assassins and they followed no code. They were well trained in guerilla tactics and killing.|||Who cares, they were both defeated by Tom Cruise and Chuck Norris. Man, havent you seen the movies?|||A Ninja is an assassin, While Samurai were ground troops.





a ninja was someone specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These included assassination, espionage, and other martial arts.








Samurai was a term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. The word %26quot;samurai%26quot; is derived from the archaic Japanese verb %26quot;samorau,%26quot; changed to %26quot;saburau,%26quot; meaning %26quot;to serve%26quot;; thus, a %26quot;samurai%26quot; is a servant, i.e. the servant of a lord.|||Despite popular belief, I would like it to be known that a ninja is not necessarily an assassin.





Samurai were official Japanese soldiers of the Edo period. They fought in wars and helped to enforce law. At first, they were seen as honorable and humble soldiers. Later on, the government became very corrupt and the Samurai basically became the government cronies/thugs who did the dirty work.





Ninja were common people who studied their own art (much influenced by Chinese rebels) to protect their villages from predators and the government who constantly took land. Of course, the ninja did work on stealth and disguise as tactics of doing justice in their own way when the government went corrupt, which is possibly where they got their assassin reputation.





Anyway, I can%26#039;t sum it up in that short segment, so I would suggest some research. Enjoy!|||The answer is that ninjas blow.





My apologies, that%26#039;s the pirate in me talking. A ninja is a thoroughly trained assasin used to attack individual targets, whereas a samurai is an elite open attack troop used in actual warfare. If you would like to know about samurai, I recommend reading %26quot;The Book of Five Rings%26quot; by Miyamoto Musashi (it%26#039;s actually a really good book). Cheers, and remember that a samurai pirate can kill anything.|||Samuarias were servants of their lord. They were feudal troops if you will.





People have the history of Ninjas all wrong. Indeed, they were spies, but not the way how they are portrayed in movies. Especially with the black suit thing. In order to spy and not be caught, they had to be dressed in average clothing. They weren%26#039;t even called %26quot;Ninjas%26quot; back then. I could be wrong, but I think that they were called %26quot;Shinobi%26quot; or something on that order, and they weren%26#039;t a clan of assassins, they ranged from anything to fallen samurai, to the average person off the street.





In reality, a Ninja is ANYONE who can endure all of life%26#039;s hardships, because that is what the term %26quot;Nin%26quot; means.|||that a ninja is more shady than a samurai|||In the history of Japan, a ninja or Shinobi was someone specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These included assassination, espionage, and other martial arts.





Samurai was a term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan.|||Samurai are real, Ninja are make-believe.|||ninjas were hired assasins and were evil they were considered a disgrace at that time





samurais were basically japans army(or whate other country that used samurai at the time)