and of the samurai code itself.

A samurai's sword is his soul.

Just a minute, samurai, sir!

A samurai's word is his bond.

You are an example for all samurai.

That samurai honor is nothing but a facade?

For us, samurai honor is no mere facade!

To face death without wavering that is truly the way of the samurai.

Not only samurai, but townspeople, too, will scoff at his wavering.

If you really think that samurai honor is ultimately nothing more than a facade... then you never had a chance of swaying us.

What do you know of the soldier's code? Of Bushido?

After all, this thing we call samurai honor is ultimately nothing but a facade.

If a samurai risks shame and ridicule to beg for a day or two's grace, he must surely have good reason.

Rather than live on in endless poverty, idly waiting for death, you wish to end your life in a manner befitting a samurai, by harakiri.

No matter how grinding his poverty and hunger, for a samurai to present himself in someone else's entryway and declare that he wishes to commit harakiri there is an unspeakable act that can in no way be excused.

Thanks to the shogunate's ruthless policy of wiping out the provincial lords, countless samurai lost their masters and were cast out to wander the depths of hell.

This house boasts of its red armor and martial valor, but it seems that even in the great House of lyi, samurai honor is nothing more than a facade.

I've heard lately of incidents all across Edo in which ronin who don't deserve to call themselves samurai demand the use of a clan's forecourt to commit harakiri