#️⃣Death

What is the real? When the blades of your enemies are slashing ferociously at you, and your life hangs in the balance, you will know.

If you do not, you have lived your life in vain.

He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart’s blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him.

What samurai could hope for more?

Fear is worse than death. Death is but the end of life, and I know it well. What I know, I can fight. What can be named, I can endure. But what lies in shadow, I can neither fight nor endure.