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. Humans are seen by him entirely as an element ...

and another 40 works by Japanese poetry masters including Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) and Takahama Kyoshi (1874-1959) in the "Saijiki" seasonal term dictionary. The researchers then had 385 people ...

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 ...

is the world of dew. And yet….and yet…. - Kobayashi Issa - For much of the last decade, I have been preoccupied with the question of what it means to live a ...

A haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) goes something like this: "My New Year/ Not too bad/ But could be better." Even though this poem is about the new year, I feel like reciting it around this ...