This day in history: 15 June 1763: Kobayashi Issa, a Japanese poet and "lay Buddhist priest", one of "the Great Four" haiku masters in Japan, was born today. Popular as Issa, a pen name meaning Cup-of-tea, he wrote over 20,000 haikus, a prolific output from a life of hardship, strewn with multiple tragedies. He has written on many subjects, …
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