Kobayashi Issa quotes

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Flower #Shade #Stranger

Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Worry #House #Spiders

In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Girl #Spring #Rain

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Spring #Alive #Strange

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Dew #World #Haiku

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Struggle #Snail #Haiku

Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Inspirational #Naps #Water

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Crush #Pearls #Care

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Cities #Tree #Fields

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Summer #Stars #Night

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Summer #August #Insects

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Flower #Gazing #World

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Tree #Stranger #Cherries

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Listening #Bells #Transience

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Sleep #Cat #Arise

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Children #Our World #Dew

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Heart #Simplicity #Humanity

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Garden #Civilization #Humans

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Hands #Together #Asking

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Mosquitoes #Praying #Killing

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Winter #Shadow #Cold

Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Stars #Lovers #Insects

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Eye #Mountain #Dragonflies

before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Rivers #Snow #Sticks

Dry creek glimpsed by lightning
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Lightning #Dry #Creeks

To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Death #Children #Spring

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Spring #Moon #Years

Here I'm here- the snow falling.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Fall #Snow #Snow Falling

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Moon #Plums #Plum Blossoms

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Morning #Sky #Red