A Bath When You'Re Born Poem by Kobayashi Issa

A Bath When You'Re Born

Rating: ★3.4


His death poem:

A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.


Translated by Robert Hass

Kobayashi Issa
Monday, January 13, 2003
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Sylvia Frances Chan 28 October 2021

Great translation of Robert Hass

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Sylvia Frances Chan 28 October 2021

Only a great poet from Japan could write this, amazing brevity! 5 Stars full

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Frederick Kesner 09 March 2018

Could these both baths be more than hygienic, perhaps to do wit portals, gateways between worlds?

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 July 2015

inizio e fine vita con un bagno.. ;)

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