攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.

Youth on horseback has passed. The world is at peace and white hairs multiply. With what remains of life that heaven permits, how can I not enjoy it?

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

信玄の兵法に、のちの勝ちを大切にするとある。それもよいが、わしは先の勝ちを大切にする。

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories

In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

An army's strength lies not in numbers, but in discipline.

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

Before wine, one should sing — for how long is life? Like morning dew, so many days have passed.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era