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Cover of Learn Japanese through Haiku: Kobayashi Issa Inside the book: the introduction to 小林一茶, on his hard childhood and the gentle, personal haiku he is known for Inside the book: Issa's fly haiku, やれ打つな 蝿が手をすり 足をする, with furigana over the kanji Inside the book: the vocabulary for the fly haiku, defining やれ, 打つな, 蝿, 手をすり and 足をする Inside the book: five English translations of the fly haiku, from literal to interpretive Inside the book: a short commentary on the fly haiku in Japanese with furigana, an audio QR code and the English Inside the book: the analysis of the fly haiku, on personification, 擬人法, and Issa's compassion for small creatures Inside the book: an ink-and-wash painting of a frog resting on a green plum below a branch
Cover of Learn Japanese through Haiku: Kobayashi Issa
Inside the book: the introduction to 小林一茶, on his hard childhood and the gentle, personal haiku he is known for
Inside the book: Issa's fly haiku, やれ打つな 蝿が手をすり 足をする, with furigana over the kanji
Inside the book: the vocabulary for the fly haiku, defining やれ, 打つな, 蝿, 手をすり and 足をする
Inside the book: five English translations of the fly haiku, from literal to interpretive
Inside the book: a short commentary on the fly haiku in Japanese with furigana, an audio QR code and the English
Inside the book: the analysis of the fly haiku, on personification, 擬人法, and Issa's compassion for small creatures
Inside the book: an ink-and-wash painting of a frog resting on a green plum below a branch

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Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, loved for his poems about small creatures and everyday life, with furigana, translations, vocabulary and grammar.

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