Ce minunat, ce minunat de simplu e să poți spune că dragostea te aduce aproape de Dumnezeu. - James Clavell

Curious, Toranaga thought, how women can change like chameleons — one moment ugly, the next attractive, sometimes even beautiful, though in reality they’re not.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

Yabu his sword.” “I think Lord Toranaga only wants Izu strong and a vassal state. Not as an ally. He doesn’t want allies any more than the Taikō did. Yabu thinks he’s an ally. I think Toranaga detests allies. Our clan will prosper as Toranaga vassals. Or as Ishido