Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa

by Makoto Ueda

This book sketches the life and poetry of Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), a Japanese poet popularly known as one of the Three Pillars of Haiku. While Basho with his mystic asceticism and Buson with his romantic aestheticism immeasurably enriched the haiku tradition, it was Issa who, with his bold individualism and all-embracing humanism, helped to modernize the form to a degree matched by no other poet. Based on the most recent scholarship, the book attempts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004137238
• ISBN13: 9789004137233
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.6"