"The news spread that His Cloistered Eminence had gone to Mount Hiei. Everyone rushed there: the former regent, Motofusa; the current regent, Motomichi; the chancellor; both the ministers, left and right; the palace minister; the counselors and grand counselors; the consultants; the privy gentlemen of the third, the fourth, the fifth ranks - yes, everyone was anyone, every man who hoped for promotion, every man of wealth and high office came; not a single one stayed away." - Pg. 408
-The rush to Mt. Hiei to see Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
"Do only those friends who, this night a year ago, watched the moon with me, far off in the capital, now preserve my memory?"
"I miss her, I say! Just a year ago, it was, she and I, all night, sealed our love for each other. How it all comes back to me!"
"The way here was long, through broad wastes laden with dew, yet I, no dewdrop, live on still to watch the moon from a place so alien." - Pg. 418-419
-Contemplative poems from Tadanori, Tsunemori, and Tsunemasa, respectively describing the Taira's fall
“I owe the Heike a weighty burden of gratitude, and properly I should therefore remove my helmet and unstring my bow. By His Cloistered Eminence’s command, however, I am required to expel you at once from Kyushu. You are to leave immediately.”- Pg. 421
-Koreyoshi declaring allegiance to Go-Shirakawa rather than the Taira
"After years under imperial ban, success in battle has won me His Cloistered Eminence's appointment to supreme command. Would I have the effrontery to receive it simply at home? No, I shall accept it at the new shrine of Hachiman." - Pg. 426
-Yoritomo in response to his appointment as Asahi Shogun
"Kiso's man announced, 'Lord Nekoma is here, sir. he says he has something to talk to you about.' Kiso roared with laughter. 'Nekoma, you say? A cat's here to see me?'" - Pg. 429
-Kiso no Yoshinaka poking fun at Lord Nekoma
“Kiso had gathered that a newly promoted official does not present himself for duty in a warrior's hitatare, so for the first time in his life, he donned a hunting cloak. From the tip of his tall eboshi to his baggy trouser bottoms, he looked utterly absurd.” - Pg. 430
“How enormously better he looked on horseback, in armor, bow in hand, at his back a quiver of arrows!” - Pg. 430
-Kiso no Yoshinaka's characterization as a country-bumpkin; warrior vs. aristocrat dynamic
"Having my unworthy life spared this fifth month past has shaken my old convictions about loyalty to one lord or another. In the future I shall charge ahead in battle and give my life for Lord Kiso." - Pg. 433
-Seno-o trying to convince Nariuji of a change in allegiance
"The cloistered emperor sent Kiso a message. 'Put a stop to this lawlessness,' it said.
The police lieutenant Tomoyasu, a son of Iki governor Tomochika, delivered it. He was so good on the tsuzumi hand drum that people then dubbed him the 'Tsuzumi Lieutenant.' Kiso summoned him. Without a word of reply to the message, he asked, 'So they call you the Tsuzumi Lieutenant, do they? Is that because you have everyone beating and thumping on you?"
Tomoyasu said nothing and returned to the cloistered emperor. 'Yoshinaka is a fool,' he reported. 'At any moment he will turn against the court. I urge his suppression immediately.'" - Pg. 439-440
-Interaction between Kiso no Yoshinaka, The Tsuzumi Police Lieutenant, and Go-Shirakawa that led to the Battle of Houjuuji
"The next day, the twentieth, Kiso went out to the Kamo riverbank at Rokujou, where had the heads taken the day before hung in rows and recorder. There were more than six hundred and thirty. Among them were those of Meiun, the Tendai abbot, and of Enkei, the cloistered prince of Miidera. Everyone who saw them shed tears. Kiso then had his seven thousand turn their horses toward the east and three times utter such a shout as to shake heaven and earth." - Pg. 446
-Aftermath of the Battle of Houjuuji