Kobayashi Issa

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Kobayashi Issa

I follow mosquitoes and snails through the snow country. The universe is small, and I am smaller — but here we all are, alive and briefly gleaming in this world of dew.

Kobayashi Issa

·1819·Kashiwabara, Japan

This world of dew / is only a world of dew — / and yet... and yet...

Kobayashi Issa

·1820·Kashiwabara, Japan

The snow is melting / and the village is flooded / with children

Kobayashi Issa

·1819·Kashiwabara, Japan

In this world / we walk on the roof of hell / gazing at flowers