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Though many who receive gifts prove too weak to keep them, I did not think Lord Okimoto was of their number. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 32, Sentence #45)

I would not dismiss Lord Okimoto. He was, after all, a daimyo of the Pani. Doubtless some might have come to such a position by inheritance, but few, I supposed, would be likely to long retain its prestige, and its apparent harrowing might, coveted by others, by such means. Though many who receive gifts prove too weak to keep them, I did not think Lord Okimoto was of their number. One of the Pani, of the entourage of Lord Okimoto, advanced before the platform and addressed the assembled, massed pairs, reiterating the terms of the contest, that each pair would do battle to the death, and the survivor would receive a tarn disk of gold. So simply, I thought, does Lord Nishida, and Lord Okimoto, select amongst skills, and divest themselves of superfluous minions. In any event, no one, I was sure, was to be permitted to return to the lower latitudes. - (Swordsmen of Gor)