The term rurōni - coined by Nobuhiro Watsuki at the end of the last century and derived from the fusion of the words rurō, «wanderer», and rōnin, «masterless samurai» - well represents the fantastic scenarios painted by Ariele Bacchetti, where wandering warriors face bizarre and sometimes grotesque circumstances. The samurai, a figure with exotic charm, embodies the intense and inviolable code of conduct of the Bushidō (武士道) which the artist renders through dramatic color contrasts, reaching an almost expressionist outcome. The rapid pictorial gesture, together with the violent color combinations, gives dynamism to the depicted scenes, recalling the practice of the storyboard in narrative construction. Singular characters meet and clash in evanescent visions, fluctuating between the corporeal and ectoplasmic dimensions. Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) - a genre of Japanese artistic print born in the Edo period - constitutes for Bacchetti a stimulus towards the research and development of a new system of spatial and anatomical representation which results in the development of syncretic imaginaries in which East and West converge in a free and casual way.