page_title: Last Days of Issa's Father
section_title: Kobayashi Issa
hierarchical_section_title: Last Days of Issa's Father / Kobayashi Issa
caption_attribution_description: English: Kobayashi Issa - Storehouse where he lived (Shinano, Nagano, Japan) 日本語: 小林一茶の住んだ土蔵（長野県信濃町）
context_page_description: The Chichi no Shuen Nikki was a diary of Kobayashi Issa, the title referring to the last days of his father. This is said to be the very root of Japan's I novel.
context_section_description: One of the four great masters of haiku, Kobayashi Issa was born as the first son of a family of Kashiwabara, now part of Shinano-machi, Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture). Issa endured the loss of his mother, who died when he was three. He was cared for by his grandmother, who doted on him, but his life changed again when his father remarried five years later. Issa's half-brother was born two years later, and when his grandmother died when he was 14, he was sent to Edo (present-day Tokyo) by his father one year later to eke out a living. He wandered throughout Japan and when he returned to his home in 1801, he experienced the sudden onset of disease of his father, and wrote about the last days of his father in a diary.
caption: Storehouse in which Issa lived
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