42 Quotes by Kobayashi Issa

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

Red morning sky – snail, are you glad of it?

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I’d say.

Even with insects – some can sing, some can’t.