From Drifters and Brave 10 to Samurai Champloo and Gintama, there's no shortage of exciting samurai anime to be enjoyed.

These values began to develop very informally as early as the ninth century among the samurai ... within Japanese society, but a general emphasis on loyalty to country and family, and a ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle.