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 ...

Issa's elegant haiku and Karas's poignant illustrations guide readers through the seasons, symbolized by the changing branches of a cherry blossom tree. The translations of 18 works from several ...

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 ...