ok so i ran out of ideas for artikel and i asked a person who i know reads my artikel exactly what to write about. that person told me go give some famous examples of samurai. nobody berkata weather it had to be real atau not so i decided to be productive and do both. the fictional samurai are from 3 different anime, rurouni kenshin, blade of the immortal and samurai shamploo. the real life samurai where usually but not always somehow related to Miyamoto Musashi.

real life samurai:
Takeda Shingen
Uesugi Kenshin
Torii Mototada
Imagawa Sadayo
Takeda Nobushige
Asakura Yoshikage
Torii Mototada
Miyamoto Musashi
Sasaki Kojirō
Arima Kihei
Tajima-no-kuni Akiyama
Musō Gonnosuke
Kawakami Gensai
Saitō Hajime
Tanaka Shinbei
Kirino Toshiaki
Okada Izō

some fictional samurai
Himura Kenshin
Shishio Makoto
Yukishiro Enishi
Mugen
Jin
Manji