Yotaro Kobayashi Issa real name, was born in Kashiwabara, a village in the mountainous and cold Shinano province, the fifth of May, 1763. The son of a middle class farmer fond of literature, was motherless and care paternal grandmother three years. Five years later his father remarried. the relationship between the future poet and stepmother (whom the birth of a son definitely left the stepchild, leading to assume, if not hostile towards it dismissive attitude), became increasingly difficult begetting in Issa complex inferiority and helplessness that never exceeded. His education was conducted by Shimpo, pseudonym of a teacher in the village who wrote haikus and started the child in the love of verse. In 1977, the teenager was sent to Edo, now Tokyo, where a life of deprivation, studies, delivery poetry and began wandering. He returned to Kashiwabara after many years of absence, to study at a school of haiku founded by a disciple of Basho and achieving fame as a writer. He adopted the pseudonym Issa, meaning "Teacup"