小林一茶(こばやしいっさ)

こばやしいっさ
noun (proper)
Kobayashi Issa (Edo-period haiku poet)
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1. Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828)
An Edo-period haiku poet from Shinano (now Nagano Prefecture), usually called just 一茶(いっさ). His haiku are plain and warm, full of sympathy for small creatures such as frogs, sparrows and flies, and for the poor and unlucky.
小林一茶(こばやしいっさ)は江戸時代(えどじだい)の俳人(はいじん)だ。
Kobayashi Issa was a haiku poet of the Edo period.
小林一茶(こばやしいっさ)は小(ちい)さな生(い)き物(もの)をよく句(く)に詠(よ)んだ。
Kobayashi Issa often wrote haiku about small creatures.
「痩(や)せ蛙(がえる)負(ま)けるな一茶(いっさ)これにあり」は、小林一茶(こばやしいっさ)の句(く)だ。
'Skinny frog, don't give up — Issa is here' is a haiku by Kobayashi Issa.

Cultural note

  • With 松尾芭蕉(まつおばしょう) and 与謝蕪村(よさぶそん), one of the three great haiku poets of the Edo period
  • He wrote some 20,000 haiku, many about his own hard life

Common expressions

Haiku every schoolchild knows

general
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