"Dragonfly Haiku gathers over one hundred haiku, all pertaining directly or indirectly to dragonflies, by three authors. Here, new English translations of classical haiku by Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa converse with modern haiku by poet scientists Ken Tennessen and Scott King. Eleven of the Issa poems have been annotated and printed with the original Japanese text. "A delightful little book in which two contemporary poets join Issa fo ..."
"This NYT Best Illustrated artist makes his Scholastic Press debut with a poignant picture book about loss and renewal.Brian Karas has always been moved and inspired by the haiku poetry of Issa, whose work is taught in schools and loved by children around the world. Here Karas has selected 22 of his favorite poems to tell the story of a year in the life of a family -- a year in which they will experience the loss of their beloved grandfa ..."
The Year of My Life. [An Autobiography in Haibun, a Mixed Form of Haiku and Prose] by Kobayashi, Issa 1763-1827 Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2021 by Hassell Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-01-425993-6, ISBN: 1-01-425993-2
The Year of My Life. by KobayashiIssa Paperback, Published 2021 by Hassell Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-01-507448-4, ISBN: 1-01-507448-0
"Koyashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered amoung Japan s four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson, and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet s extraordinary life as if it were concentrated within a year. Issa s haiku are traditionally structured, of seventeen syllables in the ..."
Issa Cup-Of-Tea Poems : Selected Haiku of KobayashiIssa by Kobayashi . Issa, David G. Lanoue Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1991 by Asian Humanities Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-89581-874-4, ISBN: 0-89581-874-4
"Issa: Cup-Of-Tea Poems : Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa"
Issa's Best A Translator's Selection of Master Haiku, Print Edition by IssaKobayashi, David G. Lanoue Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2012 by Haikuguy.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-9859003-6-6, ISBN: 0-9859003-6-9
"This book is a guided tour through the work of Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), gathering together in one text his most effective and evocative verses. After an introduction to Issa's poetry and life, the translator, David G. Lanoue, presents 1,210 haiku culled from his on-line archive of 10,000. Lanoue writes, "Issa is a poet who speaks to our common humanity in a way that is so honest, so contemporary, his verses migh ..."
"Celebrate the Mystery, Compassion, Wonder and Beauty of AnimalsTake a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations about the creatures, wild and tame, that inhabit our world. These moving contributions about all types of animals―playful dogs and beloved cats, giant whales and powerful elephants, tiny insects and delicate birds―are drawn from many faith traditions, including Native American, C ..."
"Celebrate the Mystery, Compassion, Wonder and Beauty of AnimalsTake a spiritual journey through this beautiful collection of blessings, prayers and meditations about the creatures, wild and tame, that inhabit our world. These moving contributions about all types of animals―playful dogs and beloved cats, giant whales and powerful elephants, tiny insects and delicate birds―are drawn from many faith traditions, including Native American, C ..."
The Spring of My Life And Selected Haiku by KobayashiIssa 188 Pages, Published 1997 by Shambhala Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-8348-2828-5, ISBN: 0-8348-2828-6
"The. sleeping puppy continues gnawing on the willow tree Inu no ko no kuwaete
nemuru yanagi kana. The. little puppy doesn't know autumn's arrived. But he's
still a Buddha! Aki kinu to shiranu enokoga hotoke kana. In. falling spring rain—
such an enormous yawn from a beautiful woman Harusame ni ōakubi suru bijin
kana. He. sits all alone in freezing rain for us all, this great stone Buddha Hito no
tame shigurete owasu hotoke kana All ..."
Inch by Inch 45 Haiku by Issa by KobayashiIssa, Nanao Sakaki Library, Published 1999 by Topeka Bindery ISBN-13: 978-0-613-34004-5, ISBN: 0-613-34004-3
"Originally published in 1985 in a limited edition, this selection of haiku by Issa, the great nineteenth-century Japanese poet, is translated by Nanao Sakaki, the legendary contemporary Japanese poet. Widely regarded as one of the four haiku masters of Japan, Issa is much loved for his compassion and humorous sense of equality with the natural world.Each poem is rendered in Sakaki's handwriting in both English and Kanji and includes Rom ..."
"Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the tradition of Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior. In addition to The Spring of My Life, the translator has included more tha ..."
"Don't Tell the Scarecrow and Other Japanese Poems By Issa, Yayu, Kikaku and Other Japanese Poets. By Kobayashi Issa, Yokoi Yayu, Takarai Kikaku, Morikawa Kyoriku, Kaga no Chiyo-ni, Yosa Buson, Matsuo Basho, Masaoka Shiki, Kyoshi Takahama, Ryokan Taigu, Lucky Books, Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Eva Moore, Mary Michaels White, Hallmark Cards, Hokuseido Press, John Murray, University of California Press, Scholastic Books, Talivaldis Stubis ..."
"Issa Kobayashi. My debt to Japanese scholars and editors of Issa is too great to
record here. I should like, however, to mention specially the following three books
: the facsimile edition of Issa's manuscript (Haikiji Issa Shinseki Oraga Haru
Kohon) published in 192$, which contains the Japanese characters used on the
cover and frontis-piece; Seisensui Ogiward's edition of Oraga Haru in the Iwa-
nami Pocket Book Series, from which ..."
"The year of my life. A translation of Issa's Oraga Haru by Nobuyuki Yuasa. An autobiography in haibun - a mixed form of haiku and prose. Hardcover, 1942 pages, 140 of which are numbered, followed by two postscripts."