“s heir than most of the haikai poets of the nineteenth century”
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Kobayashi Issa
Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply Issa (一茶), 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."
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culture · Japanese poet · poet · painter · writer · haiku poet · also Kobayashi Issa, Issa
Born 15 June 1763 · Died 5 January 1828 · Q312709
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Died 1828-01-05.
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Issa lost his house and was forced to live in his kura (storehouse)
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Born 1763-06-15.
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