Kobayashi Issa

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born

June 15, 1763 in Shinano-machi, Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Japan

died

January 05, 1828

gender

male

genre

Poetry

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Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet known for his haiku poems and journals. He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan, along with Bashō, Buson and Shiki. Reflecting the popularity and interest in Issa as man and poet, Japanese books on Issa outnumber those on Buson, and almost equal those on Bashō.

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Books by Kobayashi Issa

Average rating: 4.30 · 164 ratings · 42 reviews · 23 distinct works

	The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, Kaji Aso (Illustrator), Sam Hamill (Translator) 4.61 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Today And Today by Kobayashi Issa, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	A Few Flies And I: Haiku 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings	My rating:
	The Year of My Life by Kobayashi Issa, Nobuyuki Yuasa (Translator) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Dumpling Field: Haiku Of Issa 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Cup-of-Tea Poems: Selected Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, David G. Lanoue (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Inch by Inch: 45 Haiku by Issa 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Haiku 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Primeira Neve by Kobayashi Issa, Jorge Sousa Braga (Translator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Pár much a já by Kobayashi Issa, Bashō Matsuo, Santoka Taneda 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996	My rating: