what's the difference between a samurai and ninja?

Answer 1

A samurai is a warrior that fights with honor on the battlefield and is a soldier.

A ninja is martial arts highly trained assasin where stealth is key, and is not generally considered a soldier, or even all that honorable.

Answer 2

Samurai were out in the open fighters who fought for their lands and beliefs. Also in numbers. Ninjas were sillent assasians. They snuck up from behind and killed with little to no sound. They were highly trained in many sillent weapons like the the china star, throwing knives. Thins of that such.

To add, Samurai were the muscle, and Ninjas were the hit men.

Answer 3

Samurai: swordsman.
Ninja: adventurer.
Difference is the esteem samurai had over their blades, and the quarrel general people made of concerns beyond appointed and distributed. Ninjas killed murderers, while samurai would mount numbers and enjoy being brutal and vicious, beheading and mangling.
Somehow ninjas became popular with artists to some erratic conduct in politics, but after 18th century romance with death was in the past, along came fugitives from afar and wars came to trust politics and sovereign affairs with pistols and cannons, a rather pityful concern to warfarers all over, giving the chance of fast fury instead of civilized victory and morale, always opposed to trust and complaints.

Answer 4

Traditionally, in the feudal periods of Japanese history (going back at least a thousand years) the samauri were the equivalent of the European knights. They were highly trained warriors--bound by a strict code of honor and fealty (loyalty) to their lodrs. The skills they developed--what we call martial arts today--wor forbidden tothe common people--on pain of death.

However, nobility is no guarantee of noble behavior--sometimes these feudal lords became tyrants. In an effort to defend themselves (and, in effect, to create a balance of power) common folk began (around a thousand years ago) to invent their own style of combat--based not just on martial arts, but on reliance on staffs, common materials for weapons--whatever was available. And on deceptive tactics, etc. That is what the ninjitsu were--the common folks answer to the elite's effort to monopolize power and military skill.

There are a lot of legends about the ninja--in part because, as a policy, they deliberately fostered such legends as a form of psychological warfare! One of the best known is that a ninja could dissappear into thin air. That's not literally true of course--but the legend does have a grain of truth. The ninja learned to use psychological distraction and manipulation so well that an expert often could misdirect an opponents attention for a split second--and slip into concealment at that same instant--seeming to simply vanish.

Today, the ninjitsu are still around--but it is an accepted--and now legal and highly respected martial arts community.

Answer 5

Ninja mortal enemy is Pirate.

Samurai mortal enemy is bad Tom Cruise movies about Samurai.

Answer 6

Samurai were in Japan and they were in armies. Ninjas were in China and they usually acted alone.

Answer 7

A sammurai is like recognized by the emperor and a ninja isnt

Answer 8

samurais have swords and ninjas fight hand to hand most of the time

Answer 9

One had honor and duty.
The other was a rogue.