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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). Share it ❤️ Like it

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 ☕️

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) **** uroko 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) *** 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

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