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Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa
Kobayashi Issa, Japanese priest and poet (d. 1827)

Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū. 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."

15 June 1763

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