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.
Jack Kerouac is perhaps the person most responsible for popularizing haiku in the United States, initially through his novel The Dharma Bums. Along with Dharma Bums creation “Japhy Ryder,” Kerouac had read the complete works of D.T. Suzuki (on Zen Buddhism) and R.H. Blyth’s 4-volume Haiku (published from 1949 to 1952, and containing translations of several thousand traditional haiku).
posted by Trout Fishing on Oahu @ 1:03 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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