Hōjōki — An Account of My Hut — Kamo no Chōmei's meditation on impermanence, written in 1212 at his ten-foot-square hermitage on Mount Hino. One of the three great zuihitsu of Japanese literature.
Oku no Hosomichi — Matsuo Basho — Matsuo Basho's masterwork of haibun — a prose-and-poetry travel journal of his 1689 journey through northern Japan, with over fifty embedded haiku.