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MarieDeRoy1: enjoying a break from the snow in AB - taking in the blossoms and spring here in beautiful Vancouver
“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa
mrsmatsujundesu: "What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms."
—Kobayashi Issa
ferranbarber: "What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms." — Kobayashi Issa
EstherHawdon: "Cherry blossoms --
residents of this world
a short time" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Taikan Yokoyama )
EstherHawdon: "without regret
they fall and scatter
cherry blossoms" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Eiho Hirezaki / Yuhan Ito / Shiro Kasamatsu)
alila_joey: “A World of Dew” by Kobayashi Issa
A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
poetrybysharm: This week on Poetic Journeys, I explore haikus by Kobayashi Issa. More here:
_ui1422: Even in warmest glow
How cold ..
My shadow
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: Crescent m
Bent to the shape
Of the cold
Kobayashi Issa
Zinakoo: The path worth taking,
lies in the tangled forests
between heart and mind
- Kobayashi Issa
Cherry_haiku163: Don't cry wild geese,
It's the same everywhere~
This floating world.
|| Kobayashi Issa. 1763-1828
_ui1422: A summer night
Even the stars are whispering
To each other
Kobayashi Issa
Black_Kobayashi: ISSA PARADE INSIDE MY CITY YEAH
marcorosenkranz: "A world of grief and pain flowers bloom—even then."
小林 一茶 | Kobayashi Issa
kateisdeflate: “Without regret
They fall and scatter
Cherry blossoms”
— Kobayashi Issa
Cherry_haiku163: In this world we walk
on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
|| Kobayashi Issa
MykFergy: Snow starts melting
and the village overflows—
with children.
Kobayashi Issa (1814)
yuki tokete
mura ippai no
kodomo kana
Bryan15106503: A world of grief and pain
flowers bloom
even then.
Kobayashi Issa
EstherHawdon: "'Fair weather by equinox,'
they say...
but it's cold!" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Hiroshi Yoshida)
shushcat: This one is by Kobayashi Issa in the 1700/1800s:
without you--
the cherry blossoms
just blossoms
pauljimerson: Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.
― Kobayashi Issa
Ininkoshi: Where there are humans,
You'll find flies and
Buddhas
Kobayashi issa
EstherHawdon: "drinking tea alone --
every day the butterfly
stops by" Issa Kobayashi
(images: left: Shiro Kasamatsu / Bakufu Ohno)
Sravasti_Abbey: “This world of dew
is only a world of dew.
And yet, and yet--”
― Issa Kobayashi
Everything is impermanent and insubstantial—not big and solid, as we think it is. And yet each thought and action matters; it has an influence much bigger than we can imagine.
Bo0okss: A world of grief and pain
flowers bloom
even then.
- Kobayashi Issa
EstherHawdon: "waking up --
the spring rain hasn't cleared
the day hasn't ended" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Hasui Kawase / Hisako Kajiwara)
poemtoday: More Issa and more translations here:-
princessekateri: Blossoms at night,
like people
moved by music
After the Gentle Poet
Kobayashi Issa
by Robert Hass
sitamademba: Oh spring!
“A world of grief and pain flowers bloom—even then.”- Kobayashi Issa
Charles54911288: "Even in warmest glow
how cold my shadow."
— Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶)
Photo: Tokyo. 2023
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EstherHawdon: "to one side
of my paper lantern...
spring's first dawn" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Shotei Takahashi )
poemtoday: More dew, more translations from Michael R. Burch:-
EstherHawdon: "the little owl
makes a face...
spring dusk" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Koson Ohara / Hasui Kawase)
_ui1422: Live in simple path
Just as this trusting cherry ..
Flowers, fades and falls
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: The lake is slowly
Lost in mist
Evening falls
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: Without regret
They fall and scatter
Cherry blossoms
Kobayashi Issa
RobertPaulWill2: Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
- Kobayashi Issa
gastehowe: one time we were out landscapin and Cohen walked past me and quoted Kobayashi Issa, I don't know why: "In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers"
I remember so little but I remember that
EstherHawdon: "In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger" Issa Kobayashi
PatrickBreukers: A poem now and then, in search of beauty, goodness and truth.
A World of Dew by Kobayashi Issa, Japan (1763-1828).
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Eve_Castle: . I'm going to roll over,
so please move,
cricket.
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku, 1994
theeconomypress: Poems of Kobayashi Issa is a short and varied collection of Issa’s haiku. Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration (romaji).
Available here:
YuriKaoru_Chan: For example the haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa has a surprising last line: Everything I touch/with tenderness alas/pricks like a bram
sacredeastwind: "In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger." - Kobayashi Issa.
BobClimko: What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa
ldkkei: A world of grief & pain
Flowers bloom
Even then.
~ KOBAYASHI ISSA
FemiMind: My new Blog Post on Kobayashi Issa's writing
ragandboneshop: seven classics to get to know me:
- the iliad
- the tao te ching
- the oresteia (aeschylus)
- haiku of kobayashi issa
- justine (sade)
- the marriage of heaven and hell (blake)
- frankenstein (m. shelley)
… to be followed by 7 moderns!
littlecasperini: “Never forget we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.” 〰️
Eve_Castle: . This stupid world~
skinny mosquitos, skinny fleas,
skinny children.
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku, 1994
thinkalot: A perfect read for my born day...
YuriKaoru_Chan: For example the haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa has a surprising last line: Everything I touch/with tenderness alas/pricks like a bram
E_sanqueira: "What a strange thing to be alive beneath cherry blossoms" - Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: From my roof
Smooth white snow
Melting in melody
Kobayashi Issa.
_ui1422: A lotus stem
Slightly bent
A symbol of this world
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: In the world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom-
Even then
Kobayashi Issa
Topmember: “A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then”
― Kobayashi Issa
ganeshhgowda: A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
~Kobayashi Issa
EstherHawdon: "waiting for spring
sparrows also make a home
in the bamboo" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Koson Ohara)
bradneuberg: “What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
- Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
d_umadlpisani: “morning after morning
my tea tastes better…
falling fog”
Kobayashi Issa
Try_This_Dot: A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
-Kobayashi Issa
glemahund: When you are gay and poor in 18th century Japan
-Kobayashi Issa
cjsarett: (Again) Dobby Gibson,“After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s The Spring of My Life On My 49th Birthday” — “I feel like the nail/holding up someone else’s painting.”
Helenreflects: Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1828) was a Buddhist Japanese poet, well known for his humorous poems.
Here's one on the disappointing experience of looking through a telescope after you pay a fee (in 18th-century Japan)
For three pennies
Nothing but mist…
Telescope
Eve_Castle: . Even with insects~
some can sing,
some can't.
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku, 1994
EstherHawdon: “Without seeing sunlight
the winter camellia
blooms” Issa Kobayashi
Eve_Castle: . In a dream
my daughter lifts a melon
to her soft cheek.
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) ~ Written after his daughter's death.
Translation by Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku, 1994
cicuellar: Spring so near…yet so far.
“What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa,
kimono girl by itoshi tamani
MartaRema: "In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger."
Kobayashi Issa
PiyushSangte: What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa
Piyush
.
REIGNING ERA OF SUMBUL
_ui1422: In the world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom-
Even then
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: Disappeared
Into morning haze
Geese taking off
Kobayashi Issa
DanLydia22: A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
- Kobayashi Issa
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Panangelus: Never forget:
We walk atop hell,
Gazing at flowers.
Kobayashi Issa.
surya_vn: A night boat
Sails away
Illuminated by a wildfire
~ Kobayashi Issa
velvetg86947520: “Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.”
― Kobayashi Issa
stuart_j_murray: “Dew evaporates
And all the world is dew
So dear
So refreshing
So fleeting”
Zen poet
Kobayashi Issa
lauren4rch: “under cherry trees there are no strangers”
- Kobayashi Issa
op109: “January– in other provinces, plums blooming.”
— Kobayashi Issa, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa (ed. Robert Hass)
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Saigyo-Modoshiinomatsu-Park at Matsushima (source)
DangerousMere: Arise from sleep, old cat,
And with great yawns and stretchings...
Amble out for love
- Issa Kobayashi translation by Peter Beilenson
(Tabby Cat by Takeuchi Seiho)
WDavidHubbard: Poem with lines from Kobayashi Issa
LenaOzge: "Forgive me, distant wars,
for bringing flowers home."
Wislawa Szymborska
"We walk
on the roof of hell
gazing at flowers."
Kobayashi Issa
EstherHawdon: "the plum tree too
is soon snowed in...
winter seclusion" Issa Kobayashi
[Shotei Takahashi / Hiroshige]
joycebudenberg: Morning after morning
the nightingale’s
singing lesson~
Kobayashi Issa
_ui1422: The new year arrived
In utter simplicity-
And a deep blue sky
Kobayashi Issa
PeterKansiime: “O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
― Kobayashi Issa
PopHemingway: A haiku poem is a three-line form of Japanese poetry. The first and last lines of the poem have five syllables, and the second or middle line has seven.
Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.
--Kobayashi Issa
4r7hr_B0T: Grey Worm Moon.
Kobayashi Issa lorra lorra lully Friday night.
kavavelu141260: What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
- Kobayashi Issa
CosmicCat2023: in the heat shimmers
the cat snores
deeply
1814, Kobayashi Issa's
RayRespall: ¨Pleasant Company¨
Drawing, Ink/Quill on Paper.
10x9cm.
-If not for you,
too huge
the forest would be.
-Kobayashi Issa.
EstherHawdon: "softly gently --
cold weather creeps
into Kyoto" Issa Kobayashi
(image: Yuhan Ito)
CeciliaQui1: "A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle."
Kobayashi Issa
✍️Marcella Cooper
arubbie: In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers.
~ Kobayashi Issa
MosiMoradian: O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!
- Kobayashi Issa
op109: “January– in other provinces, plums blooming.”
— Kobayashi Issa, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson & Issa (ed. Robert Hass)
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Fine art Sumi-e painting of Japanese plum tree /Awen Fine Arts
Toasted Macadamia Panna Cotta topped with Plum Syrup, and Dahlia Petals
_8Mira8_: “In this world
We walk on the roof of hell
Gazing at flowers”
Kobayashi Issa