It is said that even after one’s head has been cut off, he can still perform some function. This fact can be known from the examples of Nitta Yoshisada and Ono Doken. How shall one man be inferior to another? Mitani Jokyu said, ”Even if a man be sick to death, he can bear up for two or three days.”
The Matheson Trust; Yamamoto, Tsunetomo, Hagakure: In the Shade of the
Leaves, Section 62 (p. 19)
http://themathesontrust.org/library/hagakure-book-of-the-samurai
To fight with such determination would leave one with no regret. Do we ever wait for that moment, presuming that then we would fight bravely, while spending the rest of our lives in trivialities?
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| Head of Nitta Yoshisada
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