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Kobayashi Issa

1763 - 1828

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Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶; June 15, 1763 – January 5, 1828) was a Japanese poet. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known as simply Issa (一茶), a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea (lit. "one [cup of] tea"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kobayashi Issa is the 829th most popular writer (up from 890th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Japan (up from 156th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Writer.

Kobayashi Issa is most famous for his haiku poetry. He was a Japanese poet who lived from 1763 to 1827.

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Among writers, Kobayashi Issa ranks 829 out of 7,302. Before him are Zeb-un-Nissa, Wilhelm Hauff, Theodore Beza, Alain-René Lesage, Elsa Morante, and Nikolai Ostrovsky. After him are John Bunyan, Bacchylides, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, John Dos Passos, and L. Ron Hubbard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1763, Kobayashi Issa ranks 9. Before him are Józef Poniatowski, Jean Paul, Jacques Charles, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, and Claude Chappe. After him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Guillaume Brune, Augustin Robespierre, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Xavier de Maistre, and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Among people deceased in 1828, Kobayashi Issa ranks 9. Before him are Charlotte, Princess Royal, Shaka, James Edward Smith, Carl Peter Thunberg, Victor of Aveyron, and Maria Feodorovna. After him are Alexander Ypsilantis, Franz Joseph Gall, William Hyde Wollaston, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Karl Mack von Leiberich, and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kobayashi Issa ranks 145 out of 6,245. Before him are Usaburo Hidaka (null), Masaru Emoto (1943), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), and Hiroaki Sato (1932). After him are Sonny Chiba (1939), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Tarō Asō (1940), Abe no Seimei (921), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), and Kunishige Kamamoto (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kobayashi Issa ranks 17. Before him are Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Sei Shōnagon (966), Kōbō Abe (1924), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), and Masaru Emoto (1943). After him are Shoko Asahara (1955), Yosa Buson (1716), Mori Ōgai (1862), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Sugawara no Michizane (845), and Eiji Yoshikawa (1892).

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