Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was born in Nagano, Japan with the name Kobayashi Nobuyuki. Issa studied haiku under Mizoguchi Sogan and Norokuan Chikua at the Katsushika poetry school in Tokyo. His poetry reflected a subjective and childlike simplicity, making liberal use of local dialects and conversational phrases.
I especially like this one: