Shōgun, Part 1 (Asian Saga, #1)

by James Clavell

Beauty Is not less For falling In the breeze.

“Isn’t that rebellion? Yes or no?” “Yes. But there are mitigating circumstances. Serious miti—” “There are no ‘mitigating circumstances’ when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord.” “Unless you win.”

time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.”