Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828)

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Kobayashi Nobuyki (Issa) was born in Kashiwabara, Shinano province, to a farming family and began writing in his childhood, which was marred by misfortune and sadness, his mother died and his father remarried resulting in torment at the hands of his step mother and step brother. In 1777 he was despatched to Tokyo to study the Haiku form under such masters as Sogan and Chikua. He was forced to support himself by taking menial jobs before gaining entry into the Kasushika poetry school. At the ag.. Continue..

Some of Kobayashi Issa Poems

With my father

That pretty girl

Pissing in the snow

A bath when you're born

In this world

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