Uesugi Kenshin

Uesugi Kenshin 上杉 謙信 was a samurai warlord who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan.

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  • Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
    • Quoted in Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture (1970); p. 188
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        • Cited in (Review of several books on the samurai of Japan.)
            • Alternative: "Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live."
 
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