While Nakadai, evil personified, is fluid and deceptively passive in his movements, Mifune, representing honesty, uses a straightforward two-handed stance that would be familiar to anyone who does kendo today.
But somewhere between withholding honesty and using it as a hurtful weapon there is a way of expressing the inconvenient truths, the hard and difficult ones that can bring people closer together, and open new possibilities for the relationship.
A professional with the utmost integrity and honesty, Mike used his formidable planning, architecture and urban design skills to help shape the city he loved so dearly.
To read Richardson is to enter a moral universe in which the terms "virtue" and "honesty" are used, unironically, as synonyms for virginity.
During the interview, Farage acknowledged that in all honesty he used to see Phillips as "the enemy" and "very, very much as being part of a new Labour project … the politically correct brigade that wouldn't want these things discussed".
If we've lived with an EU constitution for 30 years without losing our Britishness, why should we be alarmed because we are finally mustering the honesty to use the word?
Instead, it is a kind of intensely alive hybrid: a work of radical honesty that uses the most intimate of experiences, particularly sexual, as a way of prying open the devastating way in which political systems work to exclude and silence the unwanted.
"In all honesty, I used to feel guilty for masturbating," Rodriguez says in the magazine's August/September issue.
He told her he had something to confess in the name of honesty; he used to have a tattoo of his ex's name.
He divides our community when we need unity, lies when we need honesty, and uses deception to hide his true intentions".
