text: what to write in a journal about a samurai?   please write the following:-  samuri death poems:  death poems   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------             hôjô ujimasa1  1538-1590     autumn wind of eve,  blow away the clouds that mass  over the moon's pure light  and the mists that cloud our mind,  do thou sweep away as well.  now we disappear,  well, what must we think of it?  from the sky we came.  now we may go back again.  that's at least one point of view.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  minamoto yorimasa2  1104-1180     like a rotten log  half buried in the ground -  my life, which  has not flowered, comes  to this sad end.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ota dokan3  1432-1486     had i not known  that i was dead  already  i would have mourned  my loss of life.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ôuchi yoshitaka4  1507-1551     both the victor  and the vanquished are  but drops of dew,  but bolts of lightning -  thus should we view the world.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  shiaku nyûdo5  d.1333     holding forth this sword  i cut vacuity in twain;  in the midst of the great fire,  a stream of refreshing breeze!     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  takemata hideshige6  (after being defeated by shibata katsuie)     shall ashura  subdue a man like me?  i shall be born again  and then i'll cut the head  off katsuie...     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  tokugawa ieyasu7  1542-1616     whether one passes on or remains is all the same.  that you can take no one with you is the only difference.  ah, how pleasant! two awakenings and one sleep.  this dream of a fleeing world! the roseate hues of early dawn!     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  toyotomi hideyoshi8  1536-1598     my life  came like dew  disappears like dew.  all of naniwa  is dream after dream.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  uesugi kenshin9  1530-1578     even a life-long prosperity is but one cup of sake;  a life of forty-nine years is passed in a dream;  i know not what life is, nor death.  year in year out-all but a dream.  both heaven and hell are left behind;  i stand in the moonlit dawn,  free from clouds of attachment.  food:  in 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.   rice  unsurprisingly, 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