Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1827 / Kashiwabara / Japan)

poet Kobayashi Issa
What do you think this poem is about?

A bath when you're born

His death poem:

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


Translated by Robert Hass

Kobayashi Issa
Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003


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