Issa museum unveils new book about poet

SHINANO, Japan - The Issa Memorial Museum in the town of Shinano in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, unveils the "Kashiwabara Gashu," a book containing nine newly discovered his "hiku" poems and other documents of Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), a Japanese poet from the Edo period, to the press on March 19, 2014.

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