After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

Never flatter others. Never desire wealth and status.

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

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

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

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule