I was honored to present the keynote speech at the Haiku International Association conference in Tokyo on November 27, 2011. My talk was on "Issa's Frogs and Toads: Mirrors of Humanity." The talk grew out of the book that I'm writing now about Issa's animals. I've decided to stop translating Issa (for now) at the nice round number of 10,000 haiku to concentrate on this book.
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