A Japanese prose form combining terse, evocative travel or diary prose with interspersed haiku, developed by Matsuo Basho into its classical shape as the record of a physical and spiritual journey, the prose and verse sections working together rather than the verse merely illustrating the prose.
Facts
Place of OriginJapan, 17th century, developed in its classical form by Matsuo Basho. 1 StructurePassages of concise prose interspersed with one or more haiku, the two working together rather than the verse simply captioning the prose. 1 Notable ExampleMatsuo Basho's Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), the classic model of the form. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Influenced By
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Japan, originated there.
Sources
1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University Press
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