What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. Kobayashi Issa More Quotes by Kobayashi Issa More Quotes From Kobayashi Issa Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains. Kobayashi Issa dragonflies mountain eye Dry creek glimpsed by lightning Kobayashi Issa creeks lightning dry Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. Kobayashi Issa poppies quarrels peace There is no stranger under the cherry tree. Kobayashi Issa cherries stranger tree Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes Kobayashi Issa plum-blossoms plums moon On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting Kobayashi Issa dew our-world children Take a nap Kobayashi Issa naps inspirational water Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say. Kobayashi Issa moon spring years To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature. Kobayashi Issa spring death children Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. Kobayashi Issa insects august summer
