POTTED PLUM BLUES (SHIKI)

when to my pillow

no friends come

I lie alone

turned to face

the potted plums

makurabe ni

tonomaki toko wa

hachiue no

ume ni mukaite

hitori fushi ori

John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band: Yer Blues (Link). 

top:  ms. Page from cookbook of unknown ladies, potted plums recipe, British, ca. 1690s.   

bottom:  Utagawa  Kuniyasu, Actor  Bandô  Mit sugorô  III  Looking at a Potted Plum,  Japanese, Edo period, about 1820s.