Haibun was created by the great Japanese haiku poet, Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694). His greatest and most famous haibun, The Narrow Road Through the Deep North, is his account of a 156-day journey that began in the spring of 1689. Haibun usually takes the form of a laconic yet descriptive travelogue, puncuated with haiku: the haibun presented here is also the account of a journey, though unlike Bashō, I won’t be making this one on foot.
One of my current passions is for haiku and haibun. Unfortunately, I don’t yet read or write Japanese. Fortunately, haiku has become very popular outside of Japan, making its way to the West in the early 20th century, and becoming by World War I “an indigenous Western phenomenon,” particularly at first in France:
posted by Trout Fishing on Oahu @ 3:39 AM
To discover a new world you have to be willing to get lost; you have to risk sailing off the edge of the earth.
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