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Poems by Kobayashi Issa
a fruitful year's
a good windbreak
a hot night's pilgrimage
a plowman facing
a samisen joins
a servant on holiday
a studded palanquin
a thousand gallons
a willow droops
a willow stands
Adashi Field--
after the fire--
after winter prayers
also behind me
amazing--
an Edo kite
Are these the outskirts
as evening falls
Asakusa--
Asakusa--
at Zenko Temple
autumn begins--
autumn ends--
autumn wind--
autumn's first geese--
back from holiday
bickering in the long night
blossoming Kyoto
blossoms scatter
Bon lantern viewing
born in the pines
bowing to my home village
butterfly departs--
by the wood fire
cherry blossoms scatter
cherry blossoms--
cherry blossoms--
children play
consider this rubbish heap
cool air--
cool air--
cricket--
cuckoo--
daffodils wreathing
dawn comes quick
deep in morning's cold
deep in Saga--
don't go, firefly!
don't let the rain
drinking country sake--
Echigo mountains--
Edo's world--
Eighth Month--
entering Edo
even around here
even green grass
even in little nooks
even in spring
even in this far-off
even on New Year's Day
even the bracken
even the moon
even the poor
even the tree by the gate
even tossing rice
even trying on my summer kimono
even viewing the cherry blossoms
evening cool--
evening cool--
evening lark--
evening lark--
evening moon--
every evening
every little island
facing the mountain
facing the river--
Fifth Month rain--
Fifth Month rain--
fires on the mountain
fires on the mountain
first firefly--
first one to blow
first rainbow
fish frolicking
flitting butterflies--
flowering rape--
flowering rape--
fly on my umbrella-hat
Follow me to Zenko Temple!
following behind the fawn
for pure water
for you lice
from the deep heart
from the great bronze
Fukagawa--
get a move on, bat!
getting used
great Edo--
Great Japan--
Hamamatsu beach--
harvest moon--
harvest moon--
harvest moon--
heat shimmers--
heat shimmers--
heavy snow--
hey cuckoo
hey cuckoo--
hey reed thrush
hey reed thrush--
home village--
home village--
home village--
home village--
homeless, too
how was the festival
imperial palace--
in a Kyoto suburb
in Adashi Field
in falling rain
in Great Edo
in Kyoto
in my home village
in my home village
in my village
in the box
in the summer night
in the year's first dream
in winter wind
into my home village
is the next batch of rice cakes
island of pines--
it's a down, down
Kakizaki--
Kasuga Field's deer
Kasuga Field--
Kasuga Field--
kept as pets
kites of Edo
Kyoto night--
Kyoto, Kyoto!
Kyoto--
Land of the Rising Sun!
little pine islands
little straw mat--
loafing--
looking at willows
Matsushima--
may the wind send
misty--
Mokubo Temple
Mokubo Temple--
moonlight--
Mount Ashigara's
Mount Taka--
mountain cuckoo--
mountain village--
my home village
my home village
my home village
my home village
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my home village--
my life alone--
my lovemaking--
my village bell
n pine-tree shade
new grass--
night after night
night of haze
night on Mount Uji--
night work lit
O reed thrush
oh cuckoo
on burnt ground
on one of Edo's
on the river back home too
on the spring day
one branch makes
one migrating servant
one swarm
outskirts of Edo--
paper umbrellas
paying no heed
peeking in, peeking out
pine islands--
plum blossoms gone
plum blossoms--
plum blossoms--
plum tree--
pounding rice cakes--
pounding rice cakes--
rainstorm--
rainy winter night--
rented house--
rented house--
riding piggy-back
rost-killed grass--
Sakamoto's that way!
seeing Kyoto
Shigaraki--
Shinano road's mountains
Shinano's deep wooded mountains
sleeping side by side
sleeping side by side
sluicing in
snowy day--
so is haiku hell
sparrow parents too
spring breeze--
spring day--
taking credit
Tanabata Night
the butterfly's
the closer I get
the dragonfly's
the first and best
the home village
the mist forms
the moon departs--
the mountain I saw from Edo
the next batch of rice cakes
the nightingale
the nightingale's
the nightingale's
the spring breeze
the spring breeze
the tree buds, too
the whores
the willow
the year ends--
there comes a time
they even cut charcoal
this here mountain
though they bite
through a hole
Tiger Gate--
to my home village
to the rhythm
to the west
under their parasols
vain mankind!
white umbrella-hats
winter rain
winter wind--
winter wind--
with traveling umbrella-hats
young bamboo
Zenko Temple, too