After all, this thing we call samurai honor is ultimately nothing but a facade.
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The greatest delicacies taste of nothing when one dines alone.
When my master's house fell we immediately left the domain and moved to Edo. The streets of Edo were crowded with ronin - flotsam from the Battle of Sekigahara. In former times, other clans would have gladly taken in any ronin who'd earned a name for himself. But in an era no longer in need of warriors or horses, so peaceful that no wind even rustled the leaves on the trees, it was a constant struggle simply to find a meal. Indeed, it shames me to recall our miserable lives of these last eight or nine years.
Motome Chijiiwa was a man of some acquaintance to me.