The samurai warriors are paid from the daimyo. The daimyo pays the samurai warriors with either land, money, or food (typically rice).
Samurai were loyal to a diamyo in return for land. After a battle, the surviving samurai were given land as a reward for their loyalty.
The Samurai's job was to protect the Daimyo and in return they got food and other things
Land and food (rice)
Nobles told farmers to pay the samurai land for the samurai did not care for wealth (currency)
Not much.
Some good samurai manga would be, Samurai Champloo rurouni kenshin Inuyasha(not so much about a samurai but has basically the same feel to it)
Answer 1: SAmurais served their Shogun. A shogun was the military leader and as the years went on shogans became more incharge then the emperors. Answer 2: Samurai didn't serve the shogun, they served the daimyo, the Japanese lords. Then the daimyo would give the shogun loyalty and the service of some of the daimyo's samurai, in return for land which they gave some to the samurai. The shogun has (for example) 3 lots of land - A, B, C. Two lots of samurai -A,B - serve the daimyo. The shogun gives land lot B and C to the daimyo in return for samurai lot B. The daimyo gives land lot C to the samurai in return for their service. So even though samurai lot B 'serves' the shogun, they actually do that only because they serve the daimyo.
The samurai were originally farm land owners/warriors, ad the more powerful samurai were called the Daimyo, and the regular samurai pledged themselves to their Daimyo like knights would pledge themselves to lords inmedievaltimes.
the samurai fought to protect the daimyo (feudal ruler of their land). they were military force. they were born into samurai clans and trained from a very young age. there were, however, rogue samurai that weren't in the army but still could be very lethal. unless you were in the military, though, you weren't technically a samurai.
They were payed with golden coins and respect.
Yes they did, they would be given land by a higher authority as payment or reward for their services.