Kobayashi Issa
Issa is one of the four most venerated poets of classic Japanese haiku. Born Kobayashi Yatar? 1763, he chose Issa (Cup-of-Tea) as his haiku name. Although this site is primarily focused on original English-language haiku, Issa’s work appears often in our regular posting, taking advantage of the many topics covered in his vast oeuvre.
Thanks to translator, David G. Lanoue, The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website is our source. It has over 9000 haiku by Issa and is fully searchable by topic and season. You can find Issa haiku on particular topics that have been used at f/k/a by using keywords in our site’s Google search box (in the Sidebar).
Kobayashi Issa [info] translated by David G. Lanoue
anny is thirteen! (June 04, 2004)
a tea party with issa (June 05, 2004)
sleepy editor borrows from isssa (June 28, 2004)
heading home (June 30, 2004)
ringo’s almost 64 (July 5, 2004)
Daily Whirl Farewell [ (July 10, 2004)
blame bob (July 25, 2004)
was this Fair balanced? (July 26, 2004)
to lissa from issa (Aug 4, 2004)
re-tired (Aug. 10, 2004)
paintings, pix & prose (Aug. 14, 2004)
your right to haggle (Aug. 16, 2004)
watching the women (Aug. 25, 2004)
cemetery stroll (Aug. 26, 2004)
get a good translator (Aug. 28, 2004)
so-called defamation (Aug. 28, 2004)
the inadvertant searchee (Aug. 31, 2004)
dog bites bar (Sept. 15, 2004)
summery judgment granted (Sept. 21, 2004)
leapin’ and hoppin’ on a moon shadow (Sept. 23, 2004)
Fish to Kerry: keep it simple (Sept. 25, 2004)
how do you spell Cat? (Sept. 26, 2004)
this moon’s for you! (Sept. 27, 2004)
more harvest moon haiku (Sept. 28, 2004)
let’s mug Prof. Grace (Oct. 4, 2004)
oh brother, too much (Oct. 6, 2004)
headin’ to a weddin’ (Oct. 9, 2004)
seat-belt solace (October 17, 2004)
legal reform is still HALTing (Oct. 19, 2004)
guest sermon (Oct. 19, 2004)
getting goosed (Oct. 22, 2004)
Saratoga Springs springs for public toilets (Oct. 25, 2004)
heads up: Hunter’s Moon (Oct. 26, 2004)
flu vaccine (Oct. 29, 2004)
exit polling pool (Oct. 29, 2004)
kill the cliches (Oct. 30, 2004)
jobs & weblogs (Nov. 12, 2004)
jackals, foxes and squirrels (Nov. 17, 2004)
do ads subtract? (Nov. 20, 2004)
eight more years (Nov. 20, 2004)
belated turkey amnesty (Nov. 24, 2004)
religious law schools offer no salvation (Nov. 24, 2004)
issue-spotting for faith-based law schools (Nov. 24, 2004)
getting kinky (Nov. 27, 2004)
me and my “pal” professor B (Nov. 28, 2004)
mass. lawyers still looking out for #1 (Nov. 29, 2004)
things looking up — defining 2004 (Nov. 30, 2004)
Brainsize & More – lawyer stats (Nov. 30, 2004)
tears for the mendicant professor (Dec. 1, 2004)
two scents on dog law (Dec. 6, 2004)
. . . and pseudo-eponymously yours, too (Dec. 7, 2004)
the musty money mob (Dec. 11, 2004)
lani guinier could clear this up (Dec. 13, 2004)
a scoldy but a goody (Dec. 17, 2004)
holiday hollyku (Dec. 20, 2004)
it’s about the journey (Dec. 23, 2004)
52nd week blues? (Dec. 29, 2004)
snow buddha – just enough (Dec. 31, 2004)
into the flow of 2005 (Jan. 1, 2005)
dui cherry cordials (Jan. 8, 2005)
pro bono for whom? (Jan. 19, 2005)
tonight, I’d rather be politically incorrect (Jan. 21, 2005)
activism requires action (curing the blues) (Jan. 22, 2005)
implied disclaimers made explicit (Jan. 25, 2005)
pit-bully pulpit (Feb. 5, 2005
the cookie curmudgeon checks in (Feb. 5, 2005)
it’s a good thing she’s cute! (Jan. 28, 2005)
antitrust: the video (and textbook) (Feb. 10, 2005)
flea markets (Feb. 11, 2005)
just ing-ing around (Feb. 11, 2005)
potluck light (Feb. 16, 2005)
finally, another legal ethics weblog (Feb. 22, 2005)
carolyn and monica join the UPL posse (Feb. 24, 2005)
poll taxed (March 4, 2005)
mourning Judge Barnes (March 11, 2005)
decloaking the nameless associates (March 11, 2005)
shaded lawyers need sunshine (March 13, 2005)
versaci’s so-called lawsuit dismissed (March 15, 2005)
the Volokh Cabinet? (March 16, 2005)
feeling a little Irish? (March 17, 2005)
the doogle made me do it (March 23, 2005)
haiku potluck: . . . scarecrow April 21, 2005
born there, darn that (May 9, 2005) [mother]
a Google blind date (May 13, 2005)
no yoda quota? (May 16, 2005) [work]
gas pain? (May 21, 2005) [horse]
the siren is whinin’ (May 22, 2005) [strut]
homework from prof. b (May 27, 2005) [beggar]
all punditry is local (today, anyway) (May 29, 2005)
going solo with lowell komie (June 1, 2005) [alone]
Jerry’s angels on the Hill (June 4, 2005) [guardian]
Deep Thought (June 6, 2005) [deep, throat]
peridementia and our aging knowledge workers (June 16, 2005)
did Churchill coin that over-30 maxim? (June 21, 2005)
hello, summer (please keep your cool) (June 21, 2005)
noodling lawfully (June 27, 2005)
Supporting ONE & Live 8 — with Issa’s haiku (July 2, 2005)
issa knows mosquitoes (July 2, 2005)
yes, we have The Power to Do Good (July 3, 2005)
full moon: perigean schmerigean (July 21, 2005)
What if John Roberts is a “Serious Catholic”? (Aug. 2, 2005)
“twelve high school dropouts” (Aug. 2, 2005)
stoolies and eagles (Aug. 5, 2005)
sabbaticals? (Aug. 6, 2005) [rest]
friedman & callahan: better together (Aug. 19, 2005) [laugh]
is Canada’s bar different? (Aug. 24, 2005)
no welcome mat for Katrina (Aug. 28, 2005)
don’t forget to look up — harvest moon 2005 (Sept. 17, 2005)
the delinquent discipline of lawyer Hausmann (Sept. 21, 2005)
lawyers and spouses (Sept. 27, 2005)
is 45 too old to become a lawyer? (Nov. 17, 2005)
gay priests, Catholic Laws Schools & CLT (Dec. 1, 2005)
Dec. 9th is St. John Roberts Day (Dec. 7, 2005)
thanks a lot (for all this pressure) (added Dec. 30, 2005)
New Year haiku & senryu (Dec. 31, 2005)
Wisteria (the Journal) is coming in April Feb. 12, 2006
the Arkansas Bar irks me Feb. 22, 2006
even NYT scapegoats the billable hour March 19, 2006
sex offender Michael Boxley back at the Bar March 24, 2006
d.c. dreams – cherry blossoms at their peak March 30, 2006
Scalia chin-flicks “appearance of impropriety” rule April 13, 2006
Catholic Conservatives Ignore Benedict on Political “Caritas” April 19, 2006
poor steve bainbridge April 20, 2006
lawyers and cashews (and premium pricing) May 9, 2006
denise has us thinking about careers and choices (July 21, 2006)
lily days (Aug. 4, 2006)
playing games: Haiku Journey (Nov. 13, 2006)
equinoxically yours (March 20, 2007)
too sane to be rational? (April 4, 2007)
um, i confess (Sept. 6, 2007)
NOTE: We use Issa’s poems so often that we gave up trying to list each occurrence on this page.
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