Kobayashi Issa has been by far the most loved and most popular poet among the Japanese masters. His snail,cat, sparrow, spider; or the thatched hut...everything has been emulated and rewritten multiple times and will continue to be so.
Here are just a few of my favourites:
Here are just a few of my favourites:
my dead mother—
every time I see the ocean
every time...
every time I see the ocean
every time...
The distant mountains
reflected in the eye
of the dragonfly
on the tips
of my outstretched toes...
billowing clouds
A poor box,
four or five pennies,
evening rain
When I go,
guard my tomb well,
grasshopper
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