Filling the Well: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

 

Дмитрий Бирюков

did you pop up
with the matsutake mushrooms?
mountain rabbit

 

 

.松茸にむされて立つか山兎
matsutake ni musarete tatsu ka yama usagi

 

– Kobayashi Issa

 

 

Find your perfect haiku to celebrate International Haiku Poetry Day at David G. Lanoue's Haiku of Kobayashi Issa archive.

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah