Some consider Shiki to be one of the four great haiku masters, the others being: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson and Kobayashi Issa.

* The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa, Bashō Matsuo, Buson Yosano, Issa Kobayashi ( edited with verse translation by Robert Hass ), Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88001-372-9

Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.

Original haiku masters included such figures as Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō ( 松尾芭蕉 ); others influenced by Bashō include Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki.

* Guest: Shigezō Sasaoka, Michitaka Kobayashi, Tamie Minami, Kunihiko Kitagawa, Ryōichi Tanaka, Sanae Takagi, Junko Noda, Machiko Toyoshima, Masaharu Satō, Kōichi Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Kōno, Tomohisa Asō, Kaori Harada, Eiji Maruyama, Kazumi Tanaka, Yasunori Masutani, Junko Shimakata, Shinobu Satouchi, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Jin Domon, Nanae Sumitomo, Toshio Kobayashi, Ikuko Tatsu, Takkō Ishimori, Ginzō Matsuo, Bin Shimada, Shōgo Sakamoto, Miho Aoyama, Yoshio Kawai, Shiho Niiyama, Hiroyuki Satō, Yasuhiro Takato, Mizue Ōtsuka, Yuri Shiratori, Shōzō Iizuka, Yūsaku Yara, Asako Dodo, Wakana Yamazaki, Yutaka Aoyama, Chiaki Maeda, Nobuhiko Kazama, Jōji Yanami, Atsushi Kisaichi, Kōji Yada, Ikue Ōtani, Yūko Sumitomo, Masato Hirano, Megumi Urawa, Kōichi Kitamura, Chie Katsuragawa, Hitoshi Masuda, Yūko Nagashima, Yuka Ono, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Taiki Matsuno, Makiko Ōmoto, Emi Uwagawa, Shino Kakinuma, Osamu Saka, Mariko Suzuki, Asako Satō, Chie Satō, Hisao Egawa, Reiko Suzuki, Shinichi Yamada, Takashi Matsuo, Takeshi Aono, Rihoko Yoshida, Rumi Kasahara, Hiromi Nishikawa, Chiyoko Kawashima, Kinpei Azusa, Takeo Yoshida, Kenji Nojima, Masako Miura, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Chafurin, Ryūzaburō Ōtomo, Kae Araki, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazunari Tanaka, Ryō Horikawa, Isshin Chiba, Yuri Amano, Reiko Mutō, Takeshi Kusao, Nana Yamaguchi, Kazuya Nakai, Kan Tokumaru, Hōko Kuwashima, Kimiyoshi Kibe, Wataru Takagi, Ai Maeda, Michiko Neya, Miki Nagasawa, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Chikao Ōtsuka, Tesshō Genda, Tetsu Inada, Yoshiko Kamei, Ikuya Sawaki, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Sakura Tange, Yūko Mita, Ayumi Furuyama, Yukana Nogami, Yōko Kawanami, Kazue Ikura, Akiko Hiramatsu, Shunsuke Shima, Toshiya Ueda, Nobuo Tobita, Kaneto Shiozawa, Tsutomu Kashiwakura, Fū Suzuki, Kazuo Oka, Hiroko Emori, Hiromi Tsuru, Yōko Tebbōzuka, Michiko Ishii, Katsue Miwa, Hidenari Ugaki, Tomoko Naka, Konami Yoshida, Akemi Okamura, Yukitoshi Hori, Misao Kitagawa, Airi Takeda, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Marina Ōno, Fumihiko Tachiki, Michiko Abe, Yūko Tsuga, Takuma Suzuki, Eri Morigami, Tomoko Fujino, Saori Kaneda, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kujira, Kanako Okada, Atsushi Ii, Maria Kawamura, Tomokazu Seki, Rika Komatsu, Tōru Furuya, Mahito Ōba, Aya Hisakawa, Nobuyo Tsuda, Reizō Nomoto, Madoka Sakamoto, Masaya Takatsuka, Issei Futamata, Shinichirō Ōta, Takeshi Endō, Yōko Sōmi, Takashi Nagasako, Yoshiko Okamoto, Miki Inoue, Tomoko Sugiura, Shin Aomori, Airi Yoshida, Manami Yamamoto, Nobuo Tanaka, Makiko Mizogami, Takayuki Inoue, Sayuri Fujita, Miina Tominaga, Yukari Hikida, Sumie Baba, Ryūji Nakagi, Junpei Takiguchi, Masako Katsuki, Daisuke Gōri, Toshio Furukawa

" Additionally, Spock's self-sacrificing solution to the no-win Kobayashi Maru scenario, which Kirk had cheated his way through, forces Kirk to confront death and to grow as a character.

The record was so unexpected that when Kobayashi got to the later numbers, the organizers ran out of signs indicating how many dogs Kobayashi had eaten and had to resort to handwritten signs.

On a trip to Moscow, Kobayashi and Kato had managed to purchase a number of KGB documents, which had been kept secret since the Stalinist era.

Director Yoshiyuki Tomino returned to lead the series, and he assembled a new team consisting of character designer Hiroyuki Kitazume, who had been one of Zeta Gundam's animation directors, and mechanical designers Makoto Kobayashi, Yutaka Izubuchi and Mika Akitaka.

Out of the major Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam characters, Captain Bright Noa and Axis leader Haman Karn are featured prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Hayato Kobayashi, Kamille Bidan, Fa Yuiry, Wong Lee, Yazan Gable, Mineva Lao Zabi, and the children Shinta and Qum are featured in various episodes as well ; Sayla Mass, who had appeared in the first series but had no speaking role in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, also appeared in several episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ; Char Aznable's planned appearance was canceled when Tomino was given the go-ahead to do the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie.

As Spock had not entered Starfleet Academy as a command-track cadet, he did not take the Kobayashi Maru test while there.

In William Shatner's novel Avenger, Captain Christine McDonald of the USS Tobias tells Captain Kirk that in her time, the Kobayashi Maru scenario is no longer used to test character, but rather to evaluate the very " original thinking " for which Kirk had received a commendation.

By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan.

Tankobo and Kobayashi were considered to be two of the finest henchmen Takeshi had.

* An entire subplot, which had Kobayashi looking for his future wife through a matchmaker, was all but removed.

At the 2007 contest, the results were delayed to review whether defending champion Takeru Kobayashi had vomited ( also known as a " Roman method incident " or " reversal of fortune ") in the final seconds of the competition.

Kobayashi did not compete in the contest in 2010 or 2011 due to his refusal to sign an exclusive contract with the event's organizers like he had the previous nine years.

When Thomas undertook a challenging schedule of three contests in three cities on Labor Day weekend 2005, she had not lost a contest to anyone besides Kobayashi since the Wing Bowl in early February.

The civil engineering student from San Jose State had defeated Thomas in three of their last four match-ups and was the first eater to lead Kobayashi for the majority of a contest at the Krystal Square Off in Chattanooga the previous week.

Koichi Kato and Yotaro Kobayashi had spoken out against Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni Shrine.

Midori had initially said that he had emigrated to Uruguay, but that later turns out to be a joke ; Mr. Kobayashi was actually in a hospital in Tokyo, with brain cancer.

By January 1944, the regional commander in Truk — Admiral Masashi Kobayashi — had 28, 000 troops to defend the Marshalls, but he had very few planes.

Though once one of Wolverine's greatest enemies, he had apparently impressed Wolverine so greatly that Wolverine entrusted him with the care of his adopted daughter, Amiko Kobayashi.

It was previously held by Takeru Kobayashi from 2001 to 2007 but as of 2012 is held by Joey Chestnut.

This matrix was introduced for three generations of quarks by Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, adding one generation to the matrix previously introduced by Nicola Cabibbo.

In 2008, Chestnut and Kobayashi tied at 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes ( the time span had previously been 12 minutes ), and Chestnut won in an eatoff in which he was the first of the two competitors to finish eating 5 hot dogs in overtime, earning Chestnut his second consecutive title.

* Shoshichi Kobayashi ( born 1932 ), mathematician, worked on Riemannian and complex manifolds, infinite Lie groups

* Toshiyuki Kobayashi ( born 1962 ), mathematician, worked in the field of Lie theory, and on the theory of discontinuous groups

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

At Starfleet Academy, Kirk became the only student to defeat the Kobayashi Maru test, garnering a commendation for original thinking by reprogramming the computer to make the " no-win scenario " winnable.

Kobayashi, a beautiful teenager, constantly concerns himself with Kogoro's cases and well-being, and for a time moves in with the unmarried man.

* Leslie E. Kobayashi ( born 1957 ), Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

The current chairmen are former U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet and Chief Corporate Adviser, Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd. Yotaro Kobayashi.

In 1998, The Watchtower reported that, " On March 8, 1996, the Supreme Court of Japan that ... Kobe Municipal Industrial Technical College violated the law by expelling Kunihito Kobayashi for his refusal to participate in martial arts training.

On reflection, Yasuhide Kobayashi, vice-president of Sony's Japan Studio, believed the North American box art and lack of an identifiable English title led to the game's poor sales in the United States, and stated plans to correct that for the release of The Last Guardian.

During the 1920s and early 1930s the proletarian literary movement, comprising such writers as Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Yuriko Miyamoto, and Ineko Sata produced a politically radical literature depicting the harsh lives of workers, peasants, women, and other downtrodden members of society, and their struggles for change.

He remained close friends with Kobayashi all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi shortly after their first meeting.

Kobayashi Hideo, to whom Chūya entrusted the manuscript for Arishi Hi no Uta on his deathbed was responsible for the posthumous promotion of his works, and Ooka Shohei for collecting and editing The Complete Works of Nakahara Chūya, a collection containing the poet's uncollected poems, his journals, and many letters.

On September 27, 1992, two Journalists working for the magazine Shukan Banshun, Akira Kato and Shun-ichi Kobayashi, publicly revealed evidence of Nosaka's involvement in the deaths of Kenzo Yamamoto and his wife.

In another video game, Star Trek: Bridge Commander, a very large mod was created for the game, tentatively titled Kobayashi Maru, which added many new starship classes to the already existing roster of ships within the game.

The game was a text adventure written by Diane Duane depicting the " Kobayashi Alternative Command Performance Evaluation ", a test being proposed to replace the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and was available for the Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS PC-compatible, and Macintosh platforms.

In Star Trek DAC for XBLA and PSN, there is an achievement / trophy called Kobayashi Maru that is only achievable by entering a cheat code.

A manga incarnation is being serialized, introducing a different story that features a unique plot & characters and with little similarities ( except for the Witchblade and some other settings ) with the anime, though the script is written by the same writer Yasuko Kobayashi ( 小林靖子 ).

Physicists Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the explicit breaking of CP symmetry in the weak interactions.

In 1912 he also entered the cartoonist sector and was hired for an animation by Kobayashi Shokai later in 1916.

Kobayashi is famous for producing pears.

He also wrote the lyrics of a theme song for the film Swallowtail Butterfly ( Ai no Uta ) with Chara and Takeshi Kobayashi.

Iwai enjoyed another kind of success with this film as well, having teamed up with Takeshi Kobayashi to create the music for the film and the Yen Town Band, headed by Pop star Chara.