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Help[Opinions] Issa
(EES-a) (for a boy)
Issa was the pen name of a Japanese poet who wrote ten blue billion haikus and all of them are excellent. I have read about thirty and I love them. Issa means cup-of-tea in Japanese. I love it. Do you love it?
Here are some of my favorite haikus by Issa.
Climb Mount Fuji,
O snail,
but slowly, slowly.
Naked
on a naked horse
in pouring rain!
Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants.
New Year's Day--
everything in blossom!
I feel about average.
It once happened
that a child was spared punishment
through earnest solicitation.
The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.
Issa. Issa. Issa. I like everything about it. I would like your thoughts!
Also, his wife's name: Kiku. Chrysanthemum. Many Japanese haikus (haiku?) focus on Chrysanthemums. Mostly Buson I guess. I am just going from sheets my English teacher gave me. But yeah anyway Issa and Kiku.
ETA: I noticed that it's an Arabic transcription of Jesus. That is not the name I mean. I mean Issa the poet's name.
ETA2: I had a dream someone named their kid - oh what was it. Licius. Not like Delicious, like Linus + Lucius. Lycius maybe. I thought it was interesting.
Issa was the pen name of a Japanese poet who wrote ten blue billion haikus and all of them are excellent. I have read about thirty and I love them. Issa means cup-of-tea in Japanese. I love it. Do you love it?
Here are some of my favorite haikus by Issa.
Climb Mount Fuji,
O snail,
but slowly, slowly.
Naked
on a naked horse
in pouring rain!
Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants.
New Year's Day--
everything in blossom!
I feel about average.
It once happened
that a child was spared punishment
through earnest solicitation.
The man pulling radishes
pointed my way
with a radish.
Issa. Issa. Issa. I like everything about it. I would like your thoughts!
Also, his wife's name: Kiku. Chrysanthemum. Many Japanese haikus (haiku?) focus on Chrysanthemums. Mostly Buson I guess. I am just going from sheets my English teacher gave me. But yeah anyway Issa and Kiku.
ETA: I noticed that it's an Arabic transcription of Jesus. That is not the name I mean. I mean Issa the poet's name.
ETA2: I had a dream someone named their kid - oh what was it. Licius. Not like Delicious, like Linus + Lucius. Lycius maybe. I thought it was interesting.
This message was edited 8/30/2008, 10:10 PM
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