among the blossoming flowers. When I became chronically ill in 2001 and began to live a life of relative seclusion, I discovered a kindred spirit: the lay Buddhist priest Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828).

Kobayashi Issa (June 15, 1763 - Jan. 5, 1828) This poem begins Issa's renowned travel diary, "Oraga Haru," which has been translated as "The Spring of My Life." ...

Kobayashi Issa, says Garrison Keillor, wrote "more than 20,000 haiku celebrating the small wonders of everyday life." In this age of the 140-character Tweet, can Two-Way readers step back and ...

Scholastic, $16.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-439-59078-5 Issa's elegant haiku and Karas's poignant illustrations guide readers through the seasons, symbolized by the changing branches of a cherry blossom ...

Amateur and renowned Pakistani Haiku poets recited two translations from the original Haiku poems composed by Kobayashi Issa- one of the three pillars of Haiku in Japan.

KYOTO -- Artificial intelligence (AI) can create haiku poems that are of such a high standard that people cannot distinguish between human-made and AI ...

Haiku is a specific form of Japanese poetry consisting of 5-7-5 phonetic units (or syllables). Issa-kun’s machine learning (language model) learns from a set of data registered in its system as ...

Skinny fro g Don't give up! Issa is her e He has been dead for 180 years, but Kobayashi Issa's haiku keep reminding us that the essence of Japan's culture lies in its intimate tie to nature ...

The Haiku Kobayashi Issa wrote the haiku at a trying time in his own life, after having lost his daughter. This wasn’t the first tragedy in Issa’s life. Issa’s childhood was marked by ...