Quotes by Kobayashi Issa
3 quotes by Kobayashi Issa (died 1827), taken from Hokku. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Hokku
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“Orphan sparrows, / Are you lonely too? / Come, let me play with you.”
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“O frog, so skinny and thin, / Fight on, and don’t give in — / Issa is here!”
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“What is this talk / Of being “worth a million”? / Dew on a bamboo-stalk!”