Kobayashi Issa Quotes

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In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

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Flower, Japan, Shade

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What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

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Spring, Alive, Strange

Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”

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In this world
we walk on the roof of hell
gazing at flowers

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Flower, Gazing, World

Kobayashi Issa, “In This World”

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Don't worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.

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Worry, House, Spiders

Kobayashi Issa, “Don't Worry, Spiders”

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In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.

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Girl, Spring, Rain

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Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

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Listening, Bells, Transience

Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

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All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

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Mosquitoes, Praying, Killing

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O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

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Buddhist, Struggle, Snail

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Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

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Winter, Shadow, Cold

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The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

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Dew, World, Haiku

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Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

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Garden, Civilization, Humans

Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

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Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

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Summer, Stars, Night

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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

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Cities, Tree, Fields

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Here I'm here- the snow falling.

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Fall, Snow, Snow Falling

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Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

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Heart, Simplicity, Humanity

Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Jeff Bryan (1999). “Inch by inch: 45 haiku”, LA Alameda Pr

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Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

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Crush, Care, Pearls

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Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love

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Sleep, Cat, Arise

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There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

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Tree, Stranger, Cherries

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Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

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Summer, August, Insects

Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”

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Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

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Eye, Mountain, Dragonflies

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Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

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Morning, Sky, Red

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Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

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Hands, Together, Asking

Issa Kobayashi (1960). “The year of my life”

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Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.

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Stars, Lovers, Insects

Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

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To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

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Death, Children, Spring

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before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

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Walking Sticks, Rivers, Snow

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Born: June 15, 1763
Died: January 5, 1828
Occupation: Poet
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