1. Make It New
(December 2013/Editorial)

...translations of classical Chinese (Du Mu 杜牧, Li Shangyin 李商隱, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修…), Japanese (Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶) and Tamil (as translated by A. K. Ramanujan); we have wr...

2. Kobayashi Issa
(December 2013/Contributors)

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), better known simply as Issa, was a haiku poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Pure Land sect. He is regarded as one of Japan's four great 'haiku masters'. In his

3. Issa and the Buddha – Ten Haiku
(December 2013/Translation)

by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Nicholas Francis ちる花に仏とも法ともしらぬ哉 blossom falls, knowing neither Buddha nor Dharma 紅葉たく人をじろじろ仏哉 staring at