Winter sweet, Robai、ロウバイ

When I walk in the park and the residential area at the beginning of the year, the natural tree flowers entering the eyes are mostly camellia and sazanka flowers. But Japanese allspice is called robai in Japanese, especially stands out. And a subtle fragrance heals the mind.

蝋梅や薄雪庭を刷きのこす(水原秋桜子）

                                Robai and

                                       Thin snowy garden

                                       Leave sweeping

Robai-ya-hakusetsu-niwa-o-hakinokosu (Mizuhara syuoshi ,1892-1981 is an obstetrician and haiku poetizer)

As a private interpretation of this haiku,

It is a mercy haiku, perhaps, the flower of the robai is scattered on the thin snow, maybe it to hesitates sweeping clean.

Chimonanthus praecox, also known as wintersweet or Japanese allspice, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Chimonanthus of the family Calycanthaceae, native to China. The plant is known as làméi (腊梅) in Chinese and rōbai (蜡梅^?) in Japanese.（quote from Wikipedia)