Honkatori is a technique used to create waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) in the study of Japanese poems to take in one or two phrases of old and famous poem (the original) to create a new poem.
本歌取（ほんかとり）とは、歌学における和歌の作成技法の1つで、有名な古歌（本歌）の1句もしくは2句を自作に取り入れて作歌を行う方法。