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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kobayashi Issa
		Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶 Kobayashi Issa) (June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828) was a Japanese writer of haikai known for his hokku verses.
		During his lifetime Issa wrote over 20,000 hayku.He lost his mother at an early age, was mistreated by his his stepmother, his children died, and his marriage was unhappy, and he was poor.
		Kobayashi Issa was born the son of a farmer in Kashiwabara, Shinano province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kobayashi-Issa (709 words)

	Mary Gamble on Hotham and Issa
		Kobayashi Issa is perhaps the epitome of Japanese nature haiku artists.
		In Issa’s work, animals are given voices and their remarks are explained and rationalized.
		Issa, a Japanese poet, does not let the rain stop him from continuing his plans for the day.
	www.millikin.edu /haiku/research/HothamIssa.html (1815 words)

	Kobayashi Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶 Kobayashi Issa) (June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828) was a Japanese writer of haikai known for his hokku verses.
		He was born with the name Kobayashi Nobuyuki (and also known as Yataro) in Kashiwabara, Shinano province (present-day Shinanomachi, Nagano prefecture).
		According to the Western Calendar, Issa died on January 5, 1828 in his native village of Kashiwabara, Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kobayashi_Issa (345 words)

	Who was Kobayashi Issa?
		Kobayashi Issa was the most beloved hayku master of Eighteenth century Japan.
		During his lifetime Issa wrote over 20,000 hayku.He lost his mother at an early age, was mistreated by his his stepmother, his children died, and his marriage was unhappy, and he was poor.
		Kobayashi Issa was born the son of a farmer in Kashiwabara, Shinano province.
	www.wejees.net /whowasissa.html (339 words)

	issabio.htm
		Kobayashi's skill were recognized and he was named master of Chikua's Edo house.
		Kobayashi tried to nurse his father back to health, but he never recovered and died.
		Kobayashi and his step family agreed to divide the property right down the middle and live side by side.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /asia/lessons/bnakama/issabio.html (544 words)

	Kobayashi Issa
		Issa's life was full of misfortunes - he lost his mother at an early age, his stepmother mistreated him, he suffered from poverty, his children died, and his marriage with his second wife was unhappy.
		Kobayashi Issa was born in Kashiwabara, Shinano province (now part of Shinano Town, Nagano Prefecture), a son of a farmer.
		Later Issa complainen that he was beaten "a hundred times a day." In 1777, at the age of fourteen, he was sent by his father to Edo (Tokyo today), where he studied haiku under the poets Mizoguchi Sogan and Norokuan Chikua (died 1790).
	kirjasto.sci.fi /koba.htm (1071 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Issa's life was full of misfortunes - he lost his mother at an early age, his stepmother mistreated him, he suffered from poverty, his children died and his marriage with his second wife was unhappy.
		Kobayashi Issa was born in Kashiwabara, Shinano province (now part of Shinano Town, Nagano Prefecture), as a son of a farmer.
		Issa died on January 5, 1827 in Kashiwabara (in some sources the date is 19.11.1827).
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/issa_kobayashi.html (690 words)

	Kobayashi Issa : Poems and Biography
		Issa was born in Kashiwabara, in what is now part of the Nagano Prefecture in Japan.
		Issa's stepmother mistreated him and, when he was fourteen, Issa was sent to Edo (Tokyo) where he studied haiku.
		Though Issa's life was filled with struggles -- the death of his mother at an early age, the conflicts with his stepmother, his poverty, and the death of his own children -- his haiku tend to celebrate the serene joys and simple spiritual moments of life.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /I/IssaKobayash/index.htm (329 words)

	ISSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Issa was as happy to discover these creatures hanging in the dark corners of his bedroom as in the natural settings more typical of haiku.
		Issa wandered the countryside for much of his life, traveling from town to town, writing thousands of poems.
		In this haiku, Issa suggests that because the flies wring their hand and feet (pray) they are holy, and because they pray with two hands and four feet they are more holy than we are.
	www.eeb.uconn.edu /grads/rdunn/issa.htm (1815 words)

	Poet: Kobayashi Issa - All poems of Kobayashi Issa
		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.
		A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue.
		Kobayashi Issa (????, Kobayashi Issa?) (June 15, 1763 - January 5, 1828) was a Japanese poet, known for his haiku poems and his journals.
	www.poemhunter.com /kobayashi-issa (252 words)

	MH Book Review—Two Issa Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kobayashi Issa (1763–1827) is generally considered to be one of the three most important premodern Japanese haiku poets along with Matsuo Bashô (1644–1694) and Yosa Buson (1716–1783).
		Issa was married three times and fathered a number of children, although most of them died while still young.
		Issa refuses to exercise the philosophical restraint of a Master Bashô but instead plunges boldly into the fray to assist his little friend—if we are to believe the scene conjured by this haiku.
	www.modernhaiku.org /bookreviews/IssaBooks2004.html (3064 words)

	Simply Haiku: Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry ~ Feature: David Lanoue - Issa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the preface to his 1921 anthology, Issa senshû, Nakamura relates a conversation that he had, months earlier, during the course of which he was asked, “Since Haiku Master Bashô and Haiku Master Buson each have had their complete works published, why hasn’t Haiku Master Issa?” [1].
		Issa, I think, would approve of this perception, since he forged it with the aggressive persistence of a Hollywood publicist.
		This appreciation of Issa, however, is just as skewed as the one put forth by biographical critics obsessed with cataloguing his sorrows (Ôshiki Zuike's 1984 study of the poet is titled, "The Sorrow of Life").
	www.poetrylives.com /SimplyHaiku/SHv3n3/features/dLanoue_thenIssa.html (1495 words)

	David G. Lanoue Confessions 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Issa attended the child's cremation and was so moved that he composed a waka in which he compares the boy to fresh, new grass turned to smoke so soon after it has sprouted.
		Issa and his butterfly are contemplating a quite specific "great thing": Amida Buddha's vow to allow their rebirth in the Pure Land-a metaphor for enlightenment.
		According to Shinran, the founder of Issa's sect, once one has reached enlightenment, he or she returns to this world of suffering as a new bodhisattva-a living saint-with the loving purpose of awakening others still trapped in their self-made hells of craving, paranoia, and hopeless calculation.
	www.worldhaikureview.org /1-2/lanoue2_8_01.shtml (1072 words)

	Kalaidjian, Understanding Poetry- Biographies, Links, and Secondary Sources
		Under the patronage of Seibi Natsume, Issa began writing Haiku poetry at the age of 25 after studying under his teachers Genmu and Chiku-a.
		Although he was elected to take the place of his teacher upon the latter's death, Issa chose instead to live the life of a wanderer until 1801 when his father died.
		Issa composed plainspoken haiku lyrics that reflect on the difficult circumstances of his private life, influenced as it was by Buddhist philosophy.
	college.hmco.com /english/kalaidjian/understanding_poetry/1e/students/poetry/issa.html (306 words)

	EDO Japanese ZEN INK SCROLL, ISSA
		A light ink sketch of a robed man wearing a wide woven hat attributed to Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) capped with a verse and poem, and signed alongside the figure; the signature followed by a Ka-o signature (stylized sign used by priests, courtiers and samurai etc).
		It is mounted in a simple field of raw silk with antler rollers, and comes in a later period annotated box signed Fufu.
		Issa (Kobayashi Yataro) was an artist and poet of the Haiga style, a free-form indigenous Japanese Literati style.
	www.trocadero.com /stores/thekura/items/314647/item314647.html (123 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In this paper I will look at the way one of the great haikai poets of the Edo period, Kobayashi Issa, managed to express in discourse the devastation caused by the eruption of Mt. Asama in Tenmei 3 (1783).
		Issa's concerns lay not with the suffering of individuals but in the destruction of the bonds of human social interaction which ensued from the eruption.
		By highlighting the rhetorical strategies used by Issa to bridge the gap between events and discourse, I will to show that there are ways other than the "human interest stories” to narrate disaster.
	www.ari.nus.edu.sg /conf2005/naturalDisaster_files/hislop.doc (176 words)

	Issa : Virtual fridge poetry
		We have high hopes that this will allow Issa to become a much better (and better-selling!) product than we were able to achieve; it will, we hope, reach its true potential.
		Issa was named after Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), my favorite poet.
		I love Issa for many reasons, but his sense of humor is one of the most wonderful things about him.
	www.sticksoftware.com /software/Issa.html (261 words)

	The Japanese Haiku Masters: Links, References, Resources. ...
		Introduction to Haiku Emphasis upon Basho, Issa, and Buson.
		Issa: Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa.
		Issa's Haiku Homepage Early version of Issa Homepage.
	www.gardendigest.com /poetry/haiku6.htm (758 words)

	Alibris: Kobayashi Issa
		Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the...
		by Kobayashi, Issa, and Merrill, Jean, and Solbert, Ronni, and Blyth, Reginald Horace, and Yuasa, Nobuyuki
		Widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters of Japan, Issa is much loved for his compassion and humorous sense of equality with the natural...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kobayashi_Issa (305 words)

	David G. Lanoue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On the other hand, if Issa’s bird is solitary, the feeling in the haiku is more comic, I believe, like the old adage about a mountain laboring to give birth to a mouse.
		And, he adds, Issa himself might be the subject, since at the time of composition he was 56 by Japanese reckoning, “a ripe old age by the standards of the day.
		If Issa were the hidden subject himself, then it could be something like: Issa was somewhere (at home, on an errand etc.) when had the reason to know that cherry blossom viewing was possible or being done.
	www.worldhaikureview.org /1-1/lanoue1.shtml (2123 words)

	Issa
		Kobayashi Issa - Biogrphical information, resources, works listed.
		Kobayashi Issa - Haiku, brief biography, the study of Issa in modern times, Shinano Town--his hometown, in English and Japanese.
		The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa - Offers a large, searchable archive of Issa's 3500 haiku in both English and Japanese, and biographical information.
	www.supercrawler.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/I/Issa (133 words)

	The Spring of my Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor.
		Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior.
		In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more than 160 of Issa's best haiku and an introduction providing essential information on Issa's life and valuable comments on translating (and reading) haiku.
	www.freersacklershop.com /springofmylife.html (109 words)

	Issa information online from yoursecuritynews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		ISSA international society for the study of argumentation ISSA International Society for the Study of Argumentation: http://www.hum.uva.nl/issa.
		ISSA - Colorado Springs Chapter This website is for the use and benefit of Colorado Springs ISSA chapter members.Â Â...
		ISSA Associates Somali firm of Chartered Certified Accountants, offering a wide range of financial services of particular concern to organisations and individuals working...
	www.yoursecuritynews.com /issa.html (1434 words)

	J-Movie: おらが春 (Oragaharu: Issa, Kobayashi) ~ at runboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This three-part drama is showing on KXLA Sunday nights from 7:00p-8:00p (01/02, 01/09, 01/16 only), and is a docu-drama on the life of Issa, Kobayashi (1763-1827 C.E.), considered one of the great haiku poets of Japan.
		This is a docu-drama of Issa‛s life beginning with childhood experiences then jumping suddenly to his adulthood as he returns from Edo to his dying father in the countryside.
		This 2002 NHK movie, presumably based on haiku poet Kobayashi Issa's journal of the same name, will be shown by AHC on KXLA on Sundays at 7pm in three parts from January 2–16.
	com1.runboard.com /bcjkdramasincalifornia.fdramamiscmoviesosts.t39 (599 words)

	Simply Haiku: Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry ~ Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Like a relay racer, Kobayashi Issa carried the baton for his predecessors, Matsuo Basho and Yosa Buson, in the evolutionary development of haiku into the poetic genre that would eventually take Japan by storm.
		Hokku was, by this time, becoming popular as a separate form, and although a practitioner of haikai until his death, Basho did much to elevate the popularity of hokku.
		Likewise, they, via Ueda, examine Issa's unhappy childhood; his unsettled mobile youth; his spiritual beliefs, multiple marriages, and wanderings through western Japan; and the influences these had on his poetry.
	www.poetrylives.com /SimplyHaiku/SHv3n3/reviews/dew_grass_Ueda.html (755 words)

	Issa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Somalis, including the Issa and other clans, are the largest group and are found mostly in the south and east.
		The Afar, who are kin to the Ethiopians, are concentrated in the north and west.
		Biography of this 18th century Japanese poet with original name Kobayashi Nobuki and also known as Kobayashi yataro, who is considered as one of the best haiku master.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9042989?tocId=9042989 (479 words)

	The Spring of My Life : And Selected Haiku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Those colours on the cover reflect, perhaps, the colours of Issas "canvas" as he composes beatiful poems, so visual, delicate and sensitive.
		Issa's story is moving, deeply humane yet not tainted by any melodramatic tendencies.
		Framed in the Japanese tradition of haiku poetry his poems to his daughter are tender and moving and reveal a deep appreciation of life, beauty and simplicity.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=1570621446 (416 words)

	About Issa
		One of the four foremost poets of Japanese haiku tradition, Issa is in good company (Bashô, Buson, Issa, Shiki).
		He was born in the little village of Kashiwabara in the mountains of Japan's Shinano Province on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar.
		In Shinano Province, Kashiwabara village, Issa is born to a family of middle-class farmers.
	haikuguy.com /issa/aboutissa.html (647 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) ...
		Issa We Never Knew Ye This book is the essential book on Issa for English readers, and for Japanese who read English as well.
		Debunking a great deal of the myth (some of which Issa seems directly responsible for), this book gives a straightforward overview of the poet's life and the development of his haiku.
		Showing that although he did indeed have a difficult childhood and youth, Issa gained serious recognition and financial security in his middle years, even returning to his childhood home as a modestly comfortable landowner.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/9004137238.htm (308 words)

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