The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.
Read more Katsumoto QuotesFrom: The Last Samurai
I have been hired to suppress the rebellion of yet another tribal leader. Apparently, this is the only job for which I am suited. I am beset by the ironies of my life.
Spring, 1877. This marks the longest I've stayed in one place since I left the farm at 17. There is so much here I will never understand. I've never been a church going man, and what I've seen on the field of battle has led me to question God's purpose. But there is indeed something spiritual in this place. And though it may forever be obscure to me, I cannot but be aware of its power. I do know that it is here that I've known my first untroubled sleep in many years.
There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future.