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Spring in Fukushima prefecture. Planting rice. Perhaps some lines of Chinese poetry, beautifully translated by Ezra Pound, might be nearly appropriate.

"Rain, rain, and the clouds have gathered.
The eight ply of the heavens are darkness,
The flat land is turned into river.
'Wine, wine, here is wine!'"
(T'ao Yuan Ming, translated by Pound)