17 March 2011

Basho's Travel Dairies...or, The Art of Haibun....

The use of short simple prose/poem travel dairies was perfected in Japan in olden times... A master of the genre was Basho...who is also know for his Haiku...

Click on the Title Link to see part of Basho's famous Haibun Travel Dairy...

Sometimes this book is called : Back Roads to Distant Towns...

This form of short journal entries...usually with a Haiku at the end was called ....Haibun...

It is still an interesting way to record your travels perhaps...?

Learn about the Haibun form of Japanese prose/poem writing at this link...

Click Here



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