In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven’t made them then you are,...

Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers’ dreams

A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced. Service to them is not demeaning; service is an expression of their prowess and their...

You can always die. It’s living that takes real courage.” – Himura Kenshin

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for...

A man who can’t uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive – Hajime Saito

There are 3 reasons for why you can’t beat me. First, I’m better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there’s nothing in the world I can’t tear up.

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can’t bring the dead back to life

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords.

New eras don’t come about because of swords, they’re created by the people who wield them.

Fighting isn’t all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, andare satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. Aserious student is much...

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all...

I had a dream I was a samurai who invented the poncho, and I sold my ponchos to Mexico. The irony is… I invented them for women.

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle… Perhaps…

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what’s behind the freaking sky.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

I dreamt of worldly success once.