( haikai prose) Prose in terse style by a haikai or haiku poet, usually including hokku or haiku.
Prosaic style similar to haikai in its use of humor, jocular sayings, and confessional narrative.
a connection of prose and poetry, that can have the character of a (travel)diary, but also can look like an essay, or just a collection of notes
a prose work interpersed with haiku
a terse, relatively short prose poem in the haikai style, usually including both lightly humorous and more serious elements
Japanese form, pioneered by the poet Basho, and comprising a section of prose followed by haiku. They are frequently travelogues - as in Basho's The Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel (1688). In the best examples, the prose and haiku should work together to create an organic whole.
Haibun (Japanese: 俳文) is a combination of brief prose and haiku, written in the form of a travelogue. BashÅ, a legendary Japanese monk and haiku poet, was the originator of this particular form. He wrote haibun as a travel account during his various journeys.