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    Self-portrait - Issa

    Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) - original name Kobayashi Nobuyki, also called Kobayashi Yataro.  He used the simple pen name Issa and is probably the best loved of the haiku masters. 

     

    As a poet Issa was more robust and subjective compared to austere, priestly Matsuo Basho (1644-94) and worldly, sophisticated Yosa Buson (1716-83).

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  • By confessing his doubts and loneliness in highly personal haiku, Issa's poems also have given consolation to generations of readers. 

     

    Kobayashi Issa was born in Kashiwabara, Shinano province (now part of Shinano Town, Nagano Prefecture), a son of a farmer.  He began writing haiku as a young child, and 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.

    Issa was a prolific writer of both poetry and prose. He treated his subjects with humor, excelling particularly at affectionat