For several years now, I have been on an electronic-mail list that receives a haiku by Kobayashi Issa every single day. Most of them are pretty standard, but on occasion they are a joy to read. About a fortnight ago I got a haiku about a beauty or belle leaving a print of her butt in the fallen blossoms. Today I got another one very much like it, but this time the print is in the baby grass. The translator from the Japanese notes the striking similarity between the two haiku, but he leaves out the owner of the butt. To begin with, is it one and the same? If so, could it be that Issa, a lay Buddhist priest, was enchanted by the owner of that fabulous butt?