Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa

by Kobayashi Issa

Book Overview

Koyashi Issa (1763-1827), long considered amoung Japan's four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson, and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This collection of more than 360 haiku, arranged seasonally and many rendered into English for the first time, attempts to reveal the full range of the poet's extraordinary life as if it were concentrated within a year. Issa's haiku are traditionally structured, of seventeen syllables in the original,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804009538
• ISBN13: 9780804009539
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"