Haibun (Japanese: 俳文) is a combination of brief prose an haiku, often autobiographical or written in the form of a travelog. Bashō, a Japanese poet, was a prominent early writer of haibun. He wrote haibun as a travel account during his various journeys, the most famous example of which is the Oku no Hosomichi, or Narrow Road to the Interior (one of its best translations into English is Cid Corman's).