[Slowly] it mildens, as the plum [Ventureth forth,] blossom by blossom.

Hattori Ransetsu

梅一輪　いちりんほどの　暖かさ

ume ichirin · ichirin hodo no · atatakasa

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 328; lines re-broken