My friend’s garden has many different kinds of plants.  This is a winter sweet tree called “蝋梅” in Japanese, literally “wax plum (flower).”

It reminded me of when I was young and first learned about this kind of plant, “winter sweet”, in flower arrangement lessons—I remember thinking, “Ah, the petals really do look like what is made of wax.”

O, winter sweet, swept the garden/

Covered with light snow/

But not completely, leaving a little space/

Calligraphy and translation by Chio

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友人のお庭には、たくさんの種類の植物があります。これは、蝋梅の木で、昔若かった頃、お華のお稽古で、初めて蝋梅を知って、なるほど蝋のようだと思ったことを思い出しました。

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