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.
