Question: What to write in a journal about a samurai? 

Answer: please write the following:-\n\nsamuri death poems:\n\nDeath Poems\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n\n\nHôjô Ujimasa1 \n1538-1590 \n  \nAutumn wind of eve, \nblow away the clouds that mass \nover the moon's pure light \nand the mists that cloud our mind, \ndo thou sweep away as well. \nNow we disappear, \nwell, what must we think of it? \nFrom the sky we came. \nNow we may go back again. \nThat's at least one point of view. \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMinamoto Yorimasa2 \n1104-1180 \n  \nLike a rotten log \nhalf buried in the ground - \nmy life, which \nhas not flowered, comes \nto this sad end. \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOta Dokan3 \n1432-1486 \n  \nHad I not known \nthat I was dead \nalready \nI would have mourned \nmy loss of life. \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nÔuchi Yoshitaka4 \n1507-1551 \n  \nBoth the victor \nand the vanquished are \nbut drops of dew, \nbut bolts of lightning - \nthus should we view the world. \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nShiaku Nyûdo5 \nd.1333 \n  \nHolding forth this sword \nI cut vacuity in twain; \nIn the midst of the great fire, \na stream of refreshing breeze! \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTakemata Hideshige6 \n(After being defeated by Shibata Katsuie) \n  \nShall Ashura \nsubdue a man like me? \nI shall be born again \nand then I'll cut the head \noff Katsuie... \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTokugawa Ieyasu7 \n1542-1616 \n  \nWhether one passes on or remains is all the same. \nThat you can take no one with you is the only difference. \nAh, how pleasant! Two awakenings and one sleep. \nThis dream of a fleeing world! The roseate hues of early dawn! \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nToyotomi Hideyoshi8 \n1536-1598 \n  \nMy life \ncame like dew \ndisappears like dew. \nAll of Naniwa \nis dream after dream. \n  \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nUesugi Kenshin9 \n1530-1578 \n  \nEven a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake; \nA life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream; \nI know not what life is, nor death. \nYear in year out-all but a dream. \nBoth Heaven and Hell are left behind; \nI stand in the moonlit dawn, \nFree from clouds of attachment.\n\nfood:\n\nIn the best of times, the Japanese have always had a variety of foodstuffs from which to choose, both from the land and sea. Of course, one's diet depended to a great extent on social class. As those considered samurai could range in means from very poor to very rich-and thus experienced diets that crossed classes-we'll examine some generalities. \n\nRice \nUnsurprisingly, rice was a staple food, and was so important as to be considered a measure of wealth. Farming in Japan has never been an especially easy affair, and the life of a farmer could be a difficult one indeed. Much of Japan is mountainous, and yet even after the land was unified under the Tokugawa, each province needed to have some rice-growing potential. A few areas were idea and by the 16th Century had come to the realm's 'breadbaskets' - especially Ise Province and the Kanto Region. The Kanto in particular was well suited to agricultural development, with wide, flat stretches of land for fields and rivers to provide irrigation. Other, more mountainous provinces, like nearby Kai, presented their lords and farmers with many problems, and required a great deal more effort to optimize production. Rice fields were cut into the sides of hills, and rivers arduously dammed and diverted. Yet the work was vital - fa
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