Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶, 1763 – 1828) was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest recognized for his haiku poems and journals. He was born in 1763 Using the identify Kobayashi Yatarô into a farmer and his wife while in the village of Kashiwabara, a village of about a person hundred homes in the highlands on the province of Shinano, nea