In Haibun (俳 文) is a form of Japanese poetry in which prose and poetry are mixed together. A haibun is often autobiographical, and especially a travel journal.
The haibun gets his inspiration from the haiku; attention is paid to daily things from the author's life and his environment, so the diary form and the I-form are a lot of add-ons. The purely descriptive prose of traveling, partying, meetings calls for austerity and requires some lightness to highlight certain anecdotes and events. The haibun uses briefly but picturesque prose in which some haiku are processed. In themselves, these are complementary but no repetition of the text, the relationship between both is often subtle. Characteristic are the sophisticated landscape descriptions, the surprising transitions, the associative thinking and the mild irony. The approach of the 'human phenomenon' with a question mark causes intrusive poetic speech.
As a genre, the haibun is rarely practiced, even though there is a direct link with the haiku. The Japanese poet Matsuo Basho described his travels in Haibun; The best known of this is the masterful: Publications
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