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Books by Kobayashi Issa






Dragonfly Haiku
by Scott King, Kobayashi Issa, Ken Tennessen
Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2016 by Red Dragonfly Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-937693-98-5, ISBN: 1-937693-98-8

"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 ..."






Today And Today
by Kobayashi Issa, G. Brian Karas
Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2007 by Scholastic Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-59078-5, ISBN: 0-439-59078-7

"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 Kobayashi Issa
Paperback, Published 2021 by Hassell Street Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-01-507448-4, ISBN: 1-01-507448-0






Dumpling Field(1st Edition)
Haiku Of Issa
by Lucien Stryk, Noboru Fujiwara, Kobayashi Issa, Koyashi Issa, N. Fujiwara, Haiku Of Issa, L. Stryk Issa
Paperback, 133 Pages, Published 1991 by Swallow Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-0953-9, ISBN: 0-8040-0953-8

"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 Kobayashi Issa
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 Issa Kobayashi, 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 ..."






Blessing the Animals(1st Edition)
Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate God's Creatures, Wild and Tame
by Lynn L. Caruso, Martin Buber, Henry Bergh, Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Yosa Buson, Isaac Caruso, Feng Chih, John Ciardi, Jean Cocteau, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Matsuo Basho, Johannes Eckhart, Cecil Frances Alexander, Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John C. Chendo, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Chang Chiu-Ch'eng, Rev. Dr. Scott Cowdell, George Washington Doane, Mark Doty, Mary Cronk Farrell, John Bookser Feister, Rev. Roberta Finkelstein, T. Griffith Foulk, Anatole France, Diana L. Guerrero, Joy Harjo, Stanley Hauerwas, Kathy Heffernan, Jane Hirshfield, Alicia Hokanson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Kobayashi Issa, Francis Jammes, Naito Joso, Galway Kinnell, Rudyard Kipling, Laurie Klein, Mukai Kyorai, Laurie Lamon, Lao-Tzu, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Lehnert, Letakos-Lesa, Paul Lindholdt, Seumas Macmanus, Fiona Mcleod, Sugawara No Michizane, John Muir, Claire Rudolf Murphy, Gloria Pinsker, Po Chu-I, Sri Ramakrishna, Pam Reinke, Christina Rossetti, Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Carl Sandburg, Megha Nuttall Sayres, Albert Schweitzer, Sir Walter Scott, Masaoka Shiki, Izumi Shikibu, Mark S. Sisk, Christopher Smart, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Evelyn Underhill, Carl Van Vechten, Walt Whitman, James Arlington Wright, William Butler Yeats, Akhenaton, Skylight Paths, Diane Ackerman, Rabi'a Al-Adwayiyya, Barbara Tanner Angell, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Michael Benedikt, Wendell Berry, Edward Espe Brown, Elias Canetti, Joan Chittister Osb, Laurie Colwin, Amanda Cook, Mary Beth Crain, Ram Dass, Marc David, Diana Abu-Jaber, Lama Surya Das
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Skylight Paths
ISBN-13: 978-1-59473-253-9, ISBN: 1-59473-253-1

"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 ..."






Blessing The Animals
Prayers and Ceremonies to Celebrate God's Creatures, Wild and Tame
by Lynn L. Caruso, Henry Bergh, Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Matsuo Basho, Martin Buber, Yosa Buson, Isaac Caruso, Feng Chih, John Ciardi, Jean Cocteau, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cecil Frances Alexander, Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John C. Chendo, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Chang Chiu-Ch'eng, Rev. Dr. Scott Cowdell, George Washington Doane, Mark Doty, Johannes Eckhart, Mary Cronk Farrell, John Bookser Feister, Rev. Roberta Finkelstein, T. Griffith Foulk, Anatole France, Diana L. Guerrero, Joy Harjo, Stanley Hauerwas, Kathy Heffernan, Jane Hirshfield, Alicia Hokanson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Kobayashi Issa, Francis Jammes, Naito Joso, Galway Kinnell, Rudyard Kipling, Laurie Klein, Mukai Kyorai, Laurie Lamon, Lao-Tzu, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Lehnert, Letakos-Lesa, Paul Lindholdt, Seumas Macmanus, Fiona Mcleod, Sugawara No Michizane, John Muir, Claire Rudolf Murphy, Gloria Pinsker, Po Chu-I, Sri Ramakrishna, Pam Reinke, Christina Rossetti, Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Carl Sandburg, Megha Nuttall Sayres, Albert Schweitzer, Sir Walter Scott, Masaoka Shiki, Izumi Shikibu, Mark S. Sisk, Christopher Smart, Rabindranath Tagore, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Evelyn Underhill, Carl Van Vechten, Walt Whitman, James Arlington Wright, William Butler Yeats, Akhenaton, Skylight Paths Publishing
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Skylight Paths
ISBN-13: 978-1-59473-145-7, ISBN: 1-59473-145-4

"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 Kobayashi Issa
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 ..."






Story Library
The Little Book of Dogs
by Compiler-Caroline Walsh, Illustrator-Valerie Greeley, Adrian Mitchell, Winifred Welles, Susan Coolidge, Karai Senru, Kobayashi Issa, Harold Monro, Arthur Guiterman, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Burns, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon, Michael Ondaatje, Thomas Nelson, Caroline Walsh
Paperback, 57 Pages, Published 1996 by Kingfisher Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-85697-671-8, ISBN: 1-85697-671-8

"KINGFISHER Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Inc. 95 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10016 First American edition 1996 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Copyright in this selection © Larousse pic 1996 Illustrations copyright © Valerie Greeley ( pages 22/23, 38/39, 40/41, 52/53) Sally Holmes (pages 14/15, 18/19, 24/25, 28/ 29, 32/33, 44/45, 56/57) Peter Melnyczuk (pages 10/11, 16/17, 26/27, 30/31, 36/ 37, 46/47, 50/51, 54/55, 58/59) Neil Reed (cover i ..."






A Few Flies and I
Haiku.
by Kobayashi Issa
Hardcover, Published 1969 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-81148-2, ISBN: 0-394-81148-8

"Poetry Haiku"






Of This World
A Poet's Life in Poetry
by Translator-Richard Lewis, Illustrator-Helen Buttfield, Kobayashi Issa
Unbound, 95 Pages, Published 1968 by Pub Center Cultural Resources
ISBN-13: 978-0-89062-121-9, ISBN: 0-89062-121-7






Inch by Inch
45 Haiku by Issa
by Kobayashi Issa, 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 ..."






The Spring of My Life(Illustrated)
And Selected Haiku
by Issa, Kobayashi, Hamill, Sam
240 Pages, Published 2019 by Shambhala
ISBN-13: 978-1-61180-693-9, ISBN: 1-61180-693-3






The Spring of My Life(1st Edition)
And Selected Haiku
by Kobayashi . Issa, Sam Hamill, Kaji Aso
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1997 by Shambhala
ISBN-13: 978-1-57062-144-4, ISBN: 1-57062-144-6

"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 ..."






Ten Poems By Issa
by Robert Issa. Bly, Arthur Okamura, Kobayashi Issa
Paperback, Published 1992 by Floating Island Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-912449-41-8, ISBN: 0-912449-41-1






Don't Tell the Scarecrow and Other Japanese Poems By Issa, Yayu, Kikaku and Other Japanese Poets(2nd Edition)
(Paperback 1973 Printing, Second Edition)
by Human Sciences Press, Kobayashi Issa
Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 1973 by Scholastic Books
Deluxe Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7313-4475-8, ISBN: 0-7313-4475-8

"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 ..."






The Year of My Life(2nd Edition)
A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru
by Issa Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Yuasa, Hyoinkyo Itsuen, Yataro Kobayashi
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 1972 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-02160-0, ISBN: 0-520-02160-6

"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(2nd Edition)
A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru
by Issa Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Yuasa, Hyoinkyo Itsuen
Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 1972 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-02328-4, ISBN: 0-520-02328-5

"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."



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