Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶
haiku poet · Edo Japan · 1763–1828
A haiku poet who lost his mother at three and left home at fifteen. He returned to his village at fifty and lost all four of the children born to him there while they were small.
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1812 · Back in his snowbound home village at fifty
So this, then, is my last home? Five feet of snow.
これがまあつひの栖か雪五尺A haiku
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