Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered among Japan's four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet's extraordinary life as if it were concentrated within a year. Issa's haiku are traditionally structured, of 17 syllables in the original, tonally unified and highly suggestive, yet they differ from those of fellow haikuists.
- ISBN10 080400952X
- ISBN13 9780804009522
- Publish Date 1 January 1991
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ohio University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English