James Clavell

Shogun

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  • Sergey Alimovhas quoted4 years ago
    You will wait a day and half a day, he ordered himself, and ten times that time if need be and, until then, you will not be afraid.
  • Diego Ivánhas quoted4 years ago
    The use of guns was considered cowardly and dishonorable and completely against the samurai code, bushido, the Way of the Warrior, which bound samurai to fight with honor, to live with honor, and to die with honor; to have undying, unquestioning loyalty to one’s feudal lord; to be fearless of death—even to seek it in his service; and to be proud of one’s own name and keep it unsullied.
  • Diego Ivánhas quoted4 years ago
    When the Portuguese had first discovered Japan in 1542, they had introduced muskets and gunpowder. Within eighteen months the Japanese were manufacturing them. The quality was not nearly as good as the European equivalent but that did not matter because guns were considered merely a novelty and, for a long time, used only for hunting—and even for that bows were far more accurate. Also, more important, Japanese warfare was almost ritual; hand-to-hand individual combat, the sword being the most honorable weapon.
  • Sergey Alimovhas quoted5 years ago
    My Master says, in war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.
  • Sergey Alimovhas quoted5 years ago
    He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn't life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
  • Sergey Alimovhas quoted5 years ago
    When he was well clear of the square and certain that no one was watching, he allowed himself to smile broadly. To have tamed the chief of the barbarians so quickly! To have discerned at once how to dominate him, and them!
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