Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa (小林 一茶code: ja is deprecated , 15 Juni 1763 - 5 Januari 1828),^[1] adalah seorang penyair dan pendeta Buddha Jōdo Shinshū asal Jepang yang dikenal karena jurnal dan puisi haiku-nya. Ia dikenal dengan panggilan Issa (一茶code: ja is deprecated ), sebuah nama pena yang berarti Cangkir teh^[2] (lit. "satu [cangkir] teh").

• Bostok, Janice M. (2004). "Nobuyuki Kobayashi — Issa, 1763–1827" (online reprint at the Australian Haiku Society). Yellow Moon. Pearl Beach, N.S.W.: Yellow Moon Literary Group (16): p. 33–34. ISSN 1328-9047. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan (link)
• Hamill, Sam, trans. (1997). The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku: Kobayashi Issa. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-144-6.  (pbk, 180 pp., 160 haiku plus The Spring of My Life, an autobiographical haibun)
• Lanoue, David G. (2004). Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa. Buddhist Books International. ISBN 0-914910-53-1. 
• Mackenzie, Lewis, trans. (1984) [1957]. The Autumn Wind: A Selection from the Poems of Issa. Kodansha International. ISBN 0-87011-657-6.  (137 pp., 250 haiku)
• Suzuki, Daisetz T. (2002). Buddha of Infinite Light: The Teachings of Shin Buddhism, the Japanese Way of Wisdom and Compassion. Shambhala; New Ed edition. ISBN 1-57062-456-9. 
• Ueda, Makoto (2004). Dew on the Grass: The Life and Poetry of Kobayashi Issa. Brill. ISBN 90-04-13723-8. 

• Bickerton, Max (1932). "Issa's Life and Poetry" (online at Google Books). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan. ser. II, vol. 9: p. 110–154. ISSN 0913-4271. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan (link) (A biography and selection of translated haiku; TOC is on p. 111.)
• Lanoue, David G. (2005). "Master Bashô, Master Buson... and Then There's Issa" (online). Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry. Web: www.simplyhaiku.com. 3 (3, Autumn 2005): section "Features: Interviews & Essays". ISSN 1545-4355.  (An essay about the haiku persona of Issa, by the translator of the Issa Archive.)
• Hislop, Scot (2003). "The Evening Banter of Two Tanu-ki: Reading the Tobi Hiyoro Sequence" (online). Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Columbus, OH: Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet). 11 (2 (Fall 2003)): p. 22–31. ISSN 1940-7947. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan (link) (A discussion of Issa's approach to haikai no renga including a translation of a hankasen by Issa and Kawahara Ippyō)

• Haiku of Kobayashi Issa A searchable online archive of some 10,000 Issa haiku, translated by David G. Lanoue
• The Kobayashi Issa Museum
• Issa's 1818 self-portrait (frontispiece of the Bickerton 1932 source)
• (Jepang) 一茶発句全集 (The complete haiku of Issa)
• (Jepang) 一茶の俳句データベース some 21,000 haiku of Issa
• (Inggris) Issa Memorial Museum - Official English Site
• (Inggris & Jepang) Issa's Haiku home page Diarsipkan 2010-03-25 di Wayback Machine.