- Kyoami: Are there no gods... no Buddha? If you exist, hear me. You are mischievous and cruel! Are you so bored up there you must crush us like ants? Is it such fun to see men weep?
- Tango: Enough! Do not blaspheme! It is the gods who weep. They see us killing each other over and over since time began. They can't save us from ourselves.
- Kyoami: Why stay with this mad old man? If the rock you stay on starts to roll, jump clean. Or you'll go with it and be squashed. Only a fool stays aboard.
- Kyoami: A serpent's egg is white and pure. A bird's is speckled and soiled.
- Hidetora: This is a castle... Here's a wall.
- Kyoami: The bird left the speckled egg for the white.
- Hidetora: Strange...
- Kyoami: The egg cracks; out comes a snake.
- Hidetora: Empty space above the wall. Why?
- Kyoami: The bird is gobbled by the snake.
- Hidetora: Where am I? Who am I?
- Kyoami: Stupid bird!
- Hidetora: What madness have I spoken? Wherein lies my senility?
- Saburo Naotora Ichimonji: I'll tell you. What kind of world do we live in? One barren of loyalty and feeling.
- Hidetora: I'm aware of that.
- Saburo Naotora Ichimonji: So you should be! You spilled an ocean of blood. You showed no mercy, no pity. We too are children of this age... weaned on strife and chaos. We are your sons, yet you count on our fidelity. In my eyes, that makes you a fool. A senile old fool!
- Hidetora: [Hidetora has just signed a pledge abdicating his authority to Taro] Are you a son?
- Taro Takatora Ichimonji: What do you mean?
- Hidetora: Is this a son's attitude? The hen pecks the cock and makes him a crow.
- Taro Takatora Ichimonji: He made it clear that I am now in command.
- Lady Kaede: In that case, behave as if you are.
- Kyoami: See the Lord, a gourd in the wind, swinging this way, swinging that way, spinning as the breeze blows, so high up, dangling hollow from the tower, what fun, what fun!
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