Cena
— What would you have to pay them for my head? — Toranaga asked him.
— There is not enough silver in all Asia to tempt me to employ them to do this.
— What would another have to pay?
— Twenty thousand koku… fifty thousand… a hundred… perhaps more, I don't know.
— Would you pay a hundred thousand koku to become Shōgun? Your bloodline goes back to the Takashimas, neh?
Yabu said proudly, — I would pay nothing. Money's filth — a toy for women to play with or for dung-filled merchants. But if that were possible, which it isn't, I would give my life and the life of my wife and mother and all my kin except my one son, and all my samurai in Izu and all their women and children to be Shōgun one day.
— And what would you give for the Eight Provinces?
— Everything as before, except the life of my wife and mother and son.
— And for Suruga Province?
— Nothing, — Yabu said with contempt. — Ikawa Jikkyu's worth nothing. If I don't take his head and all his generation in this life I'll do it in another. I piss on him and his seed for ten thousand lifetimes.

(No Džeimsa Klavela "Šoguna".)