Even today we don't know much about ninja because of the secretive history.
As for samurai, we have to distinguish
pre-Edo samurai and
Edo samurai.
Samurai class of the Edo military governance was more of scholar-politician oriented role, not 100% warriors that we know in the entertainment aspects.
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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
And no I don't think that Samurai were appalling... but I don't think they were exceptionally righteous either.
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Only righteous in the Confucian and Zen Buddhist (Rinzai or Soto) contexts and point of views,