Kobayashi Issa

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Gender	Male
Death	196 years ago
Date of birth	June 15,1763
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Born	Kashiwabara
Date of died	January 5,1828
Died	Shinano Province
Spouse	Kobayashi Yao
	Tanaka Yuki
	Kobayashi Kiku
Children	Sato
Parents	Yagobei
	Kuni
Job	Poet
Full name	Kobayashi Yatarō
Nationality	Japanese
Date of Reg.	2019-03-03 12:06:03
Date of Upd.	2023-09-11 03:05:51
ID	486367

Issa, cup-of- tea poems
The stars are whispering
The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa
Inch by Inch
The autumn wind
The year of my life
A few flies and I
Dragonfly Haiku
Dusk lingers
Issa's Best: Print Edition: a Translator's Selection of Master Haiku
Ten poems
The Duckweed Way: Haiku
Haiku
Poems of Issa: For the New Year
The Spring of My Life
Last Days of Issa's Father
Poems of Kobayashi Issa

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Kobayashi Issa Life story

Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply Issa, a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki — "the Great Four."