Kihen
Nerdy haiku of the day, recorded anonymously in the 1633 Enoko shū:
冬ながら木へんに春の花見哉
fuyu nagara/ kihen ni haru no/ hanami kana
"Though it's still winter, tree-radical + spring flower-viewing."
The tree 木 radical + spring 春 is of course 椿 tsubaki, Camellia, which flowers very early.
(Bonus trivia: in Japan, the opera La traviata retains the title of the original story: Tusbaki-hime, which is to say La Dame aux camélias.)
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Tim Martin:
Ah, I love it!