On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.

“People who wear only ready-made clothes are apt to doubt the very existence of …”

“…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control suc…”

“Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the w…”

“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”