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Kobayashi Issa, was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals.

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List of poems by Kobayashi Issa 52 total

A bath when you're born
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A cuckoo sings
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A huge frog and I
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a world of dew
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All the time I pray to Buddha
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Asked how old he was
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Blossoms at night
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Children imitating cormorants
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Don't Kill That Fly!
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Don't know about the people
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Don't worry, spiders
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Ducks bobbing on the water
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Even on the smallest islands
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Even with insects
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Face of the spring moon
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Having slept, the cat gets up
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Hey, sparrow!
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How much
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I'm going out
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In spring rain
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In the thicket's shade
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In these latter-day
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In this world
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It once happened
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Last time, I think
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Napped half the day
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Napping at midday
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New Year's Day
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New Year's morning
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No doubt about it
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Not knowing
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Not very anxious
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Pissing in the snow
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Seen
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Summer night
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That pretty girl
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That wren
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The crow
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The man pulling radishes
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The moon tonight
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The pheasant cries
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The snow is melting
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The toad! It looks like
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These sea slugs
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This moth saw brightness
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Under my house
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Under the image of Buddha
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Visiting the graves
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What a strange thing
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Windy fall
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With my father
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Writing shit about new snow
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