ape minuscola –
su un tappeto di muschio
ciuffo di primule

very little bee –
on a musk carpet
tuft of primroses

Lucia Fontana

 

 

Utagawa Hiroshige II, Primrose at Todahara in Tokyo (Tôkyô Todahara sakuragusa), from the series Thirty-six Selected Flowers (Sanjûrokkasen), 1866