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Books
Allioux, Brigitte. Ora ga aru: Mon année de printemps. Kobayashi Issa. Translated from the Japanese and
annotated by Brigitte Allioux . Nantes, France: Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2006. 160 pages. ISBN 2-35018-034
-4. Print book: 13 x 19 cm
Cholley, Jean. En village de miséreux: Choix de poèmes de Kobayashi Issa. Paris: Gallimard, 1996. In French.
Cholley, Jean, trans. En village de miséreux: Kobayashi Issa. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1996. 262 pages.
ISBN 2-07-074505-8. Print book: 14 x 22.5 cm Series: Collection Connaissance de l'Orient.
Collet, Hervé, and Cheng Wing Fun. ISSA: Et pourtant, et pourtant. Translated from Japanese and edited by
Cheng Wing Fun. Millemont, France: Éditions Moundarren, 1991. 180 pages. ISBN 2-907312-11-1. Print
book: 15 x 21 cm
* Corman, Cid. A Real Issa. Versions by Cid Corman. Charleston, Ill.: tel-let, 1999. 24 pages. No ISBN. Print
mini-chapbook: 2¾˝ x 4˝. Matte beige card covers; hand sewn.
Dørumsgaard, Arne. Kobayashi Issa: Blad fre ein austleg hage: hundre haiku-dikt. Oslo: Dreyer, 1966. Print
book. In Norwegian.
* Edwards, Cliff. Everything Under Heaven: The Life and Words of a Nature Mystic, Issa of Japan.
Richmond, Va.: Virginia Commonwealth University, 1980. 52 pages. No ISBN. Print book: 5¼˝ x 8½˝. Matte
beige card covers; perfectbound. Reprinted as Issa: The Story of a Poet-Priest.
Edwards, Cliff. Issa: The Story of a Poet-Priest. Tokyo: Macmillan Shuppan KK, 1985. Reprint of Everything
Under Heaven: The Life and Words of a Nature Mystic, Issa of Japan (1980).
Fujimoto Jitsuya. Issa no kenkyû. Tokyo: Meiwa Insatsu, 1949.
Gouvret, Alain, and Imamura Nobuko. Sous le ciel de Shinano: Kobayashi Issa. Calligraphy by Mitsu
Imamura. Orbey, France: Éditions Arfuyen, 1984. 48 pages. ISBN EAN 9782903941116.: 15 x 12 cm In
Japanese and French .
Gouvret, Alain, and Imamura Nobuko. Sous le ciel de Shinano: Kobayashi Issa. Calligraphy by Mitsu
Imamura. Orbey, France: Éditions Arfuyen, 1996. ISBN EAN 9782903941116.: 15 x 22 cm In Japanese and
French.
* Hamill, Sam, trans. The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashô, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets. Boston & London:
Shambhala, 1995. Print book.
* Hamill, Sam, trans. The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashô, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets. Boston & London:
Shambhala, 2000. 125 pages. ISBN 1-570625-48-4. Price: $11.00 from booksellers. Print book: 4¼˝ x 5˝.
Glossy four-color card covers; perfectbound. Series: Shambhala Centaur Editions.
Hartmann, Georg. Habt doch Geduld mit mir, Issa und Basho. Frankfurt, Germany: Minimart-Verlag, . Price:
$5.20 from the publisher at Falkstraße 11660487 Frankfurt, Germany. Series: Haiku-Bücher für die
Westentasche. In German.
Inc.. Haiku sous le ciel de Shinano: Issa. Orbey, France: Éditions Arfuyen, 1996. ISBN 978-2903941116.
Print book.
Books
Issa. Taza de té: Haikús de Kobayashi Issa. Verdehalago, . 124 pages. ISBN 978-6-077546-56-6. Price: Euro
9.00... Paper.
Kaneko Tohta. Issa kushû. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1983. reprinted 1984.
* Kobayashi Issa. The Autumn Wind: A Selection from the Poems of Issa. Translated and introduced by Lewis
Mackenzie. Tokyo, New York, and London: Kodansha International, 1984. 138 pages. ISBN 0-870116-57-6.
Print book: 4½˝ x 7˝. Glossy card covers; perfectbound.
Kobayashi Issa. Cool Melons—Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa. Story and translations by Matthew
Gollub. Watercolor illustrations by Kazuko G. Stone. Calligraphy by Keiko Smith. New York and Hong
Kong: Lee & Low Books, 1998. 40 pages. ISBN 1-880000-71-7. Price: $16.95. Print book.. Hardcover and
paperback editions.
Kobayashi Issa. Das Ora ga Haru des Kobayashi Issa. Translated by Géza Siegfried Dombrady. Munich:
1965. 216 pages. Unbound typescript. Ph.D. dissertation. May 7, 1956. In German.
* Kobayashi Issa. The Duckweed Way: Haiku of Issa. Translated by Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto. Derry,
Pa.: The Rook Society, 1977. 24 pages. ISBN 0-916684-07-5. Price: $1.50. Print book: 22 cm Series: Rook
Chapbooks 14.
Kobayashi Issa. Dusk Lingers: Haiku of Issa. Translated by Dennis Maloney. Illustrated by Hide Oshiro. New
York: White Pine Press, 1981. Print book.. Paper covers; saddle-stapled. Series: Modest Proposal Chapbooks.
Kobayashi Issa. Dusk Lingers: Haiku of Issa. Translated by Dennis Maloney. Color illustrations by Hide
Oshiro. Fredonia, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1986. 32 pages. ISBN 0-934834-62-8. Price: US$6.00. Print
chapbook: 7˝ x 4¼˝. Matte beige cartd covers; handmade paper flyleaves; colored inks throughout; saddlestapled.
* Kobayashi Issa. Dusk Lingers: Haiku of Issa. Translated by Dennis Maloney. Illustrated by Hide Oshiro.
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Lilliput Press, Original edition published by White Pine Press, 2006. 22 pages. No ISBN. Print
mini-chapbook: 5½˝ x 4˝. Matte beige card covers; saddle-stapled. Series: Modest Proposal Chapbooks 14.
Kobayashi Issa. En un village de miséreaux: choix de poèmes de Kobayashi Issa. Traduit et annoté par Jean
Chollet. Paris: Gallimard, 1996. ISBN 2-070745-05-8. Print book. Series: Connaissance de l'Orient. In French.
* Kobayashi Issa. A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Issa. Selected by Jean Merrill and Ronni Solbert from
translations by R.H. Blyth and Nobuyuki Yuasa. Illustrated by Ronni Solbert. New York, etc.: Scholastic
Book Services, 1969. 96 pages. Print book: 21 cm; 5¼˝ x 8¼˝. Semigloss card covers; perfectbound.
Kobayashi Issa. A Few Flies and I: Haiku by Kobayashi Issa. Selected by Jean Merrill and Ronni Solbert from
translations by R.H. Blyth and Nobuyuki Yuasa. Illustrated by Ronni Solbert. New York: Pantheon Books,
1969. 96 pages. Print book.
Kobayashi Issa. Five Feet of Snow: Issa's Haiku Life. Translated by Katsuyuki Yaba and Joy Norton. Nagano,
Japan: Shinano Mainichi, 1994. Print book.
Books
* Kobayashi Issa. Inch by Inch: 45 Haiku by Issa. Translated by Nanao Sakaki. Albuquerque, N.M.: La
Alameda Press, 1999. 78 pages. ISBN 1-888809-13-2. Print book: 18 cm; 6˝ x 7˝. Paper covers. In English and
Japanese. Includes interview "Cup of tea, plate of fish" conducted by John Brandi and Jeff Bryan.
Kobayashi Issa. Issa Haiku: A Collection of 17-Syllable Poems with Cutout Pictures. Yanagisawa Kyoko and
Saka and Ford. Tokyo: Fujinsha, 1996. Print book.
Kobayashi Issa. Issa heiku shû. 1936. Print book.
Kobayashi Issa. Issa zenshû. Nagano, Japan: Shinano Mainichi Shimbunsha, 19 volumes, 1976–1979. Print
book.
* Kobayashi Issa. Issa: Cup-of-Tea Poems: Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. Translated by David G.
Lanoue. Fremont, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1991. 92 pages. ISBN 0-895818-74-4. Price: $8.95 from PO
Box 3523, Fremont, CA 94539. Print book: 20.5 cm; 5˝ x 8˝. Glossy beige and green card covers;
perfectbound. Translation of Issa zenshû, vol. 1 (1979).
Kobayashi Issa. Issa: The Story of a Poet-priest. Translated by Cliff Edwards. Tokyo: Macmillan, 1985.
* Kobayashi Issa. Issa’s Best: A Translator’s Selection of Master Haiku. English translation by David G.
Lanoue. No place [New Orleans]: HaikuGuy.com, 2012. 219 pages. ISBN 0-985900-36-9. from the
translator/publisher at http://haikuguy.com/issa/. Print book: 21.5 cm; 5½˝ x 8½˝ In English only.
Kobayashi Issa. Kaichû Issa bunshû. 1943. Print book.
Kobayashi Issa. Kobayashi Issa's Ora-ga-haru. Translated and annotated by G.S. Dombrady. Tokyo:
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- u. Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1959. 269 pages. Print book: 26 cm Series:
Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens / Supplementband 23.
Illustrations. In Japanese and German.
Kobayashi Issa. My Favorite Haiku of Issa. Translated by Sakuko Takada. .
Kobayashi Issa. Ô shiki Zuike. Jinsei no hiai: Kobayashi Issa. Tokyo: Shintensha, 1984.
* Kobayashi Issa. The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru. Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1960. 142 pages. Print book: 4¾˝ x 7¼˝. Cloth and paper
editions.
* Kobayashi Issa. The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa’s Oraga Haru. Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2nd edition, 1972. 142 pages. ISBN 0-520023-28-5 (cloth); 0
-520021-60-6 (paper). Price: $2.45. Print book: 4¾˝ x 7¼˝. Semigloss card covers; perfectbound. An
autobiography in haibun—a mixed form of haiku and prose.
* Lanoue, David G. The Distant Mountain: The Life and Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. Translations into Hindi by
Angelee Deodhar. Chandigarh, India: Bilingual Hindi-English edition published by Angelee Deodhar, 2009.
97 (the two languages are on facing pages paginated separately) pages. No ISBN. Price: US$5.00 from the
publisher. Print book: 21.5 cm; 5½˝ x 8½˝. Semigloss black card covers; perfectbound.
Books
Lanoue, David G. Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa. Tadoshi, Fukagawa-shi, Japan, and Reno, Nev.:
Buddhist Books International, 2004. ISBN 0-914910-53-1.
Mabesoone, Seegan. Haïkus satiriques: Issa. Translations by Seegan Mabesoone . Illustrations by Ikeda
Mitsuru. Éditions Pippa, 2015. 96 pages. ISBN 978-2-916506-73. Print book: 11.5 x 18 cm
Mabesoone, Seegan. Issa redécouvert: Essai de poétique comparée. Association Française de Haïku, January
2007. 28 pages. Print chapbook: 14.5 x 21 cm Series: Le haïku en français.
Mabesoone, Seegan, trans. Journal des derniers jours de mon père: Kobayashi Issa. Éditions Pippa, 2014.
ISBN 978-2-916506-54. Print book: 11.5 x 18 cm Series: Collection Kolam . Poetry.
Mabesoone, Seegan. Kobayashi Issa. Japan: Kokusho Kankohkai, 2003. Print book.
* McGinnis, Mark W. The Painted Kobayashi Issa. Issa translations and afterword, “Kobayashi Issa,” by
David G. Lanoue. No place [Boise, Idaho?]: published privately, 2013. 108 pages. ISBN 978-1-482022-59-9.
Print book: 21.5 cm; 8½˝ x 8½˝. Glossy four-color card covers; perfectbound.
Nakamura Rikurô. Issa senshû. Kyoto: Kyoto Insatsusha, 1921; reprinted 1930.
* Stryk, Lucien, trans.. The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa. With the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara. Athens,
Ohio: Swallow Press of the Ohio University Press, 1991. 115 pages. ISBN 0-804400-95-8. Price: $24.95
hardcover; $14,95 paper. Print book: 21.5 cm; 5½˝ x 8½˝. Glossy color card covers; perfectbound.
Titus-Carmel, Joan. Haïku (Issa). Paris: Éditions Verdier, 1994. 97 pages. ISBN 2864321998. Print book.
Ueda, Makoto. Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa. Leiden, Neth.: Brill Academic
Publishers, 2004. xi+194 pages. ISBN 90-04137-23-8. Series: Brill’s Japanese Studies Library 20.
Williams, C.K. The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling: Poems from Issa. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck, 1983.
Print book.