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Kobayashi Issa was born Kobayashi Nobuyuki on June 15, in the village of Kashiwabara, Shinano province (present-day Nagano prefecture), Japan, He died of....
A Japanese poet, and Buddhist priest, known for his haiku poems and his journals.
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Biography Kobayashi Issa
- Time Period1763 - 1827
- PlaceKashiwabara
- CountryJapan
Poet Biography
Kobayashi Nobuyki (Issa) was born in Kashiwabara, Shinano province, to a farming family and began writing in his childhood, which was marred by misfortune and sadness, his mother died and his father remarried resulting in torment at the hands of his step mother and step brother.In 1777 he was despatched to Tokyo to study the Haiku form under such masters as Sogan and Chikua. He was forced to support himself by taking menial jobs before gaining entry into the Kasushika poetry school. At the age of 28 he was to be given a teaching post at the school but lasted just a year after it became clear that his modern style of haiku did not suit the clerical confines that were expected of him.
For the next two years Kabayashi wandered the provinces of Japan where he found a patron in the form of Seibi Natsume, during this period he took the pen name (Issa). upon his