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Kobayashi Issa was one of Japan's most prolific poets. He left in his journals over twenty thousand one-breath poems—then called haikai but today known as haiku. This website offers an archive of 9,000 of these haiku.
Kobayashi Yatarô (1763-1828), who took the pen name Issa ("Cup-of-Tea"), was one of the great haiku poets of modern Japan. This is an archive devoted to his work, including many translations from his over seven thousand poems. Linked from the Wikipedia a
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