Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet born in 1763. He wrote over 20,000 haiku - "one-breath poems" - that celebrate the small wonders of life, and wrote under the pen name "Issa," which means "Cup-of-Tea." He is regarded as one of the four haiku masters in Japan.
Here is one of his poems with beautiful imagery:
Here is one of his poems with beautiful imagery:
making the lawn
a sit-down teahouse...
summer trees
6 comments:
Beautiful Haiku and a beautiful tea cup! I now feel the need to take my tea pot outside to the side lawn and have a teapaty for one! Thank you for sharing! Have a very blessed day!
~Donna~
Issa - I love the meaning of his name. Lovely teacup and a perfect poem!
Hi Donna - and LaDonna!
It *is* a lovely teacup, isn't it. It's a photo I found on the web and I thought I had linked to the original source but I see that it is not working that way I thought it would. I'll have to work on that...
Thank you for dropping by.
Love the image of sitting on the lawn for tea.
I've been studying haiku as part of my Japanese tea ceremony classes. So simple but layered!
So true, Steph. Much like the Japanese tea ceremony itself.
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