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Samurais were soldiers. Ninja were assasins. They could be fighting on the same side, or against each other, depending on what warlord they were under.
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Samurais were Bushido warriors and Ninjas were Ninjutsu warriors. Both were militarily trained and both were utilized as soldiers and as assassins. The main difference between their ideologies was that the Samurai placed honor above all things, including life. The Ninja held life and survival as most important. Some formal Samurais actually opened Ninjutsu schools. Hattori Nazo Yasunaga (Father of Hattori Masashige Hanzo {Hattori "The Devil" Hanzo}the world's most famous Ninja), was a formal Samurai that actually trained and became a Ninja. So, as Scubabob said, Samurais and Ninjas could be enemies or allies.
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G'day Luis10, Thank you for your question. Ninjas and samurai would work for the same lord. The ninja appeared in the 14th century and were active for the rest of the feudal period which lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century. They performed various duties including scouting, sabotage, spying and assassination. Samurai were conventional soldiers who performed military roles as cavalry, archers and foot-soldiers. Shoguns would have both samurai and ninja working for them the same as modern forces have both military forces and intelligence agencies. I have attached sources for your reference. Regards References Wikipedia Ninja http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja Wikipedia Samurai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai Samurai Archives http://www.samurai-archives.com/ How Stuff Works Ninja http://people.howstuffworks.com/ninja.htm Further reading Hatsumi, Masaaki (June 1981). Ninjutsu: History and Tradition. Unique Publications. ISBN 0-86568-027-2. Turnbull, Stephen (February 2003). Ninja AD 1460-1650. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-525-2.
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No,there where groups that had samurai's and ninja's,a ninja dressed himself like a normal guy or old lady,he's like the spy of the middle-ages,they where also handy to kill someone that had alot of protection,so no in a nation there where ninja's and samurai's that fought together
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i was watching a show on the history channel that said samurais were tax collectors. in return for their duties instead of money they would be given land. so since the emporer had to divide his land to pay the samuri it actually gave the samuris a descent amount of power while it reduced to some extent the emporers power. and that is also one of the reasons there came to be so many different forms of martials arts.
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... as a whole no ... but there were certain individuals from both sides that were against each other ...
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Historically you can answer this by saying yes and no, many shinobi were at also samurai, the samurai fought aginst samurai and on occasion aginst the shinobi familys, some styles of ninjitsu were developed by samurai. There was also the idea that the Koga and Iga shinobi were enemy this was not true they often worked togather. The sninobi was more of an intel. agent much more than an asassion.
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Yes! The samaurai came along first while ninjas were still peasants. The peasants grew tired of the samurai ruling over them and rebelled.Then they became the ninjas. They mostly attacked the samurai at night, their black outfit blending in with the shadows. They did many assasination missions during the 15th and 16th century. When the samurai changed into the Yakuza after WW2, ninjas were still going strong. Today, ninjas are much more modern but still have much skill like they did back in the middle ages. They can dodge bullets, scale walls, and are armed heavily with ninjato swords, tanto daggers, shuriken, clubs, bows, crossbows and air compressed hand grenades. They are truly the Japenese Special Ops.
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Not always. A Ninja could often have worked for the same warlord as a Samurai just as a Ninja could be a peasant rebelling against a warlord or acting as resistance against an invading warlord. Their styles were different however. Samurai practiced Bushido which was much like the European knights' concept of Chivalry. They were about honor on the battlefield. Ninjas on the other hand were asassins who followed no code and practiced techniques such as spying, assasination, and escape concepts which were very much against the code of Bushido.
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Samurai lived by the code of bushido (way of the warrior) Samurai frown on the art of the ninja, as they considered they had no honour to face one's enemy face to face in battle, as Samurai did. Ninja would kill anyway they could, in secret, while there victim slept, in some cases they were referred to as the shadow warrior. As for enemies, I would say in some cases yes possibly, It was common for Samurai to take work as a bodyguard for a rich master or overseer, within the area, if a contract was taken with a ninja to kill this overseer or master, only the Samurai stood in there way. Samurai taking this sort of work, would bound by oath to service and protect with his life. But outside this, I do not believe they were enemies, Samurai lived peacefully unless provoked.
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Yes they could be either enemies or allies. Ninjas were also trained similarily like samurai. however ninjas were used more for assanination work and spying but were sometimes used as members of the army
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