Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest noted for his haiku poems and journals. He was born in 1763 Using the name Kobayashi Yatarô into a farmer and his spouse in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of about just one hundred residences within the highlands in the province of Shinano, near to