Haibun

Haibun (Japanese俳 文for farcical portrayal ) is a lyrical hybrid of the Japanese literature. The haibun is a scarce, crisscrossed by subjective impressions sketch in which usually towards the end a haiku is embedded, which has pointierenden character, so the description is lively and entertaining.

The haibun is traditionally a chapter of a literary travel diary, as Matsuo Basho's Oku no hosomichi ( On narrow paths in Oku ) from 1689. Herein form 43 Haibun a complete narrative and realize therefore 43 illustrations of his journey from Yedo in the north-western provinces and back to Ise.

According to Basho's literary theory a successful haibun must meet the following criteria:

• There must be no forth constructed by the mind concoction, but must arise from the spontaneous experience out;
• It must have a closed overall design and may not yet be final;
• It must be able to have a concise and simple style;
• Use of allusions to mind images of famous poets, scholars, monks, etc. from the past are considered as an essential style means;
• All the content of a haiku defining art theory demands such as reverb, realism, being and impermanence, " loneliness ", etc.

In more recent times Haibun often occur as an independent form, especially in the Anglophone region.

Swell

• The literatures of the East in individual representations. Volume X: history of Japanese literature by Karl Florence. C. F. Amelangs Verlag, Leipzig 1909, pp. 464-466.