One Man's Moon: 50 Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, Hakuin, Shiki, Santoka

by Kobayashi Issa, Cid Corman (Translator)

A collection of haiku presents examples of the tightly structured, deceptively simple verse form.

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

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.

Although better known by his pen name Issa, he was born Kobayashi Yataro in 1763 on a farm in central Japan.

Reviews

[Paulianez · Rating 4 out of 5]

He leído por primera vez un librito de haikus, estos poema cortos y llenos de sentido me han hecho sentir nostalgia y lo recomiendo.
"Privamera floreciente, ojos cegados, triste canto de ave". lo que tendemos a entender como "La primavera la sangre altera pero luego se viene."
Los comentarios del traductor me han parecido una maravilla, gracias Ricardo de la Fuente.