To know the pathos of things.

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

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

-- Sanada Yukimura

If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Fifty years of human life -- compared to the realm beneath heaven, it is but a dream, an illusion.

-- Oda Nobunaga

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- Cao Cao

I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

-- Yasunari Kawabata