Kobayashi Issa, Japanese Priest and Poet(1763-1828)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Kobayashi Issa
• Birth: June 15, 1763, Shinano Province (modern Nagano Prefecture), Japan
• Death: January 5, 1828, Shinano Province, Japan
• Language: Japanese
• Who he was: Japanese priest and poet; poems and The Spring of My Life (autobiography) (one of the "Four Great Haiku Masters")

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