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 With all the title Kobayashi Yatarô to a farmer and his wife while in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of close to 1 hundred residences while in the highlands on the province of Shinano, nea