Samurai are the military nobles and officers of medieval and modern Japan.

In Japanese, they are usually called "bushes". According to the translator William Scott Wilson, "in Chinese, the character was originally a verb, representing" waiting "and" company "in the upper class society, as well as" saburau "in Japanese. Wilson said the two countries were nominalized as "those closely related to the nobility" and that "saburai" in Japanese was the nominal form of verbs. (905-914), the first poetry anthology, completed in the first half of the 10th century.

By the end of the 12th century, samurai had almost become synonymous with dwarves, a term closely related to the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. Warriors are usually associated with clans and their masters and trained in military tactics and grand strategy. Although the number of samurai is less than 10% of the Japanese population, their teachings can still be found in daily life and modern Japanese martial arts.