Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa (Japanese小林 一 茶; born June 15, 1763 in Kashiwabara, Shinano (now district of Shinano, Nagano prefecture), † January 5, 1828 ibid, real name: Kobayashi Nobuyuki (小林 信 之), Childhood Name: Kobayashi Yataro (小林 弥 太郎) was a Japanese haiku poet Issa is one of the " Big Four " of Japanese haiku poetry. Matsuo Bashō, Buson, Shiki, Issa.

Born poor, Issa could never get out of the humble. Even the age of thirteen he went to study in Edo ( Tōkyō ). Stays in Kyoto, Osaka and other centers of Japanese culture are demonstrated before Issa went back to his homeland. At 25, he began to write haikus. Several blows lasting influence on him, so among other things, the loss of his wife and several children. Only later did he could improve his circumstances anything with going on a small inheritance.

The haiku Issa break often solidified after Bashō 5-7 5- verse. They are characterized by a deep love of nature, even to the smallest and insignificant beings from. Snails, frogs, swallows, sparrows, mice or locusts he weaves naturally into his works. The haikus show his respect and respect for these creatures. He leads the haiku by an elitist and highly complicated art to even ordinary people understand and poignant expression.

The content of his haikus are supported by a incomparable and loving humor that does not spare even his own person. Add a hint of self -irony, he sometimes compares himself even with scarecrows along the way.

It is his life, his poverty is not going - so he addressed them. It nowhere even the smallest approach of bitterness or sadness can be seen. Happiness, contentment and satisfaction Buddhist determine Issa's works.