Kobayashi Issa: without seeing sunlight

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without seeing sunlight

Kobayashi Issa, Kobayashi Issa poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Kobayashi Issa
(1763 - 1828) Timeline

English version by
David G. Lanoue

Original Language
Japanese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

18th Century

without seeing sunlight
the winter camellia
blooms

- from the website http://haikuguy.com/issa/

1813

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	A Box of Zen: Haiku the Poetry of Zen, Koans the Lessons of Zen, Sayings the Wisdom of Zen, Edited by Manuela Dunn Mascetti / Edited by Timothy Hugh Barrett
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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