WRITER

Kobayashi Issa

1763 - 1828

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Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, June 15, 1763 – January 5, 1828) 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 (lit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kobayashi Issa has received more than 285,986 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Kobayashi Issa is the 891st most popular writer (up from 1,049th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Japan (up from 201st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Writer.

Kobayashi Issa is most famous for his haiku poetry. He was a Japanese poet who lived from 1763 to 1827.

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Notable Works

Dusk lingers
Haiku
1981
Ora ga haru ; Chichi no shūen nikki
1979
Poems
History
1957
Livenʹ pi︠a︡toĭ luny
Haiku
A collection of haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. His poetry is created with a sentimental simplicity and love of nature.
1999
The year of my life
Population
1960
Issa no bungaku
1995
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
Readers (Secondary), Study and teaching (Secondary), English literature
2002
The year of my life
1960
Poems
German Haiku, Haiku, Haiku, German
1957
Chichi no shūen nikki
Authors, Japanese, Biography, Diaries
1922
Ten poems
Translations into English, Haiku, Japanese Poetry
1972
A few flies and I
Haiku, Translations into English, English poetry
Ninety-five haiku written over two hundred years ago by the Japanese poet Issa.
1969

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kobayashi Issa ranks 891 out of 7,302. Before him are Marko Marulić, Jorge Semprún, Marilyn vos Savant, Cormac McCarthy, Julien Green, and Silius Italicus. After him are Hans Fallada, Tukaram, Ben Jonson, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Eugène Scribe, and Daniel Goleman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Kobayashi Issa ranks 11. Before him are Jean Paul, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Claude Chappe, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Augustin Robespierre, and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve. After him are Guillaume Brune, Xavier de Maistre, Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Joseph Fesch, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and Étienne Méhul. Among people deceased in 1828, Kobayashi Issa ranks 9. Before him are Shaka, Maria Feodorovna, Victor of Aveyron, Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, and Jean-Antoine Houdon. After him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Carl Peter Thunberg, Charlotte, Princess Royal, William Hyde Wollaston, and Sineperver Sultan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kobayashi Issa ranks 156 out of 6,245. Before him are Torakusu Yamaha (1851), Issey Miyake (1938), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Kenzō Takada (1939), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), and Junko Tabei (1939). After him are Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Iwane Matsui (1878), Ken Watanabe (1959), Shoko Asahara (1955), Osamu Yamaji (1929), and Nobusuke Kishi (1896).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kobayashi Issa ranks 18. Before him are Kōbō Abe (1924), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Sei Shōnagon (966), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Masaru Emoto (1943), and Zeami Motokiyo (1363). After him are Shoko Asahara (1955), Mori Ōgai (1862), Shūsaku Endō (1923), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Kenji Miyazawa (1896).

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