One of the four great Haiku masters, Kobayashi Issa wrote over 22,000 Haikus during his lifetime, yet no one has ever solved the mystery of the Ten-Year Gap in his biography. From 1777 to 1787 (from ages 14-24) he utterly disappeared. Nothing is known of him or his whereabouts during that time! This musical suggests a solution to where he had been during the mysterious decade. The answer? – in PARIS! (Opens in Tokyo in 2026)