Akiji Kobayashi Quotes

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. ~ Kobayashi Issa

In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends ~ Kobayashi Issa

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

I know that I have a special stomach. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet - ~ Kobayashi Issa

Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! ~ Kobayashi Issa

Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop ~ Kobayashi Issa

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes ~ Kobayashi Issa

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice. ~ Kobayashi Issa

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning ~ Kobayashi Issa

History matters. ~ Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part. ~ Kobayashi Issa

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting ~ Kobayashi Issa

Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow ~ Kobayashi Issa

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it? ~ Kobayashi Issa

Though small, the shrine has a long history. In 1333 - the Third Year of the Genko era - Lord Takeshigé Kikuchi ascended to it in order to implore the divine favor before going into battle. Victory was his, and in gratitude he had the shrine rebuilt. According to tradition, he himself carved the Worship Image, reciting a triple prayer after each stroke. This represented the god as standing on the mountain peak with one hand raised, gazing at the armed host he had blessed. It was an image of victory.
Now, however, the morning after the rising, early on the auspicious Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, the time of the Chrysanthemum Festival, there were gathered around the shrine forty-six hunted survivors of a defeated force. Some standing, some sitting, they stared blankly about them, though the penetrating autumn chill made their wounds sting. The clear light of the rising sun cast a striped pattern as it shone down through the branches of the few old cedars that surrounded the shrine. Birds were singing. The air was fresh and clear. As for signs of last night's sanguinary combat, these were visible in the soiled and bloodstained garments, the haggard visages, and the eyes that burned like live embers.
Among the forty-six were Unshiro Ishihara, Kageki Abé, Kisou Onimaru, Juro Furuta, Tsunetaro Kobayashi, the brothers Gitaro and Gigoro Tashiro, Tateki Ura, Mitsuo Noguchi, Mikao Kashima, and Kango Hayami. Every man was silent, sunk deep in thought, looking off at the sea, ~ Yukio Mishima

Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories ~ Kobayashi Issa

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

At least we have the record, Henry thought. A reminder of a place where people didn't seem to care what you looked like, where you were born, or where your family was from. When the music played, it didn't seem to make one lick of difference if your last was Abernathy or Anjoy, Kung or Kobayashi. ~ Jamie Ford

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience. ~ Kobayashi Issa

A world of grief and pain,
but the flowers bloom
even then ~ Kobayashi Issa

I just want to compete and do what I love. ~ Takeru Kobayashi

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. ~ Kobayashi Issa

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say. ~ Kobayashi Issa