Gunma-ken

or Gunma Prefecture

What a handsome, tired horse. 群馬県の自治体 Gunma Ken's autonomous political bodies

市部: 前橋市 Don't be afraid to cross the bridge.
高崎市 桐生市 伊勢崎市 太田市
沼田市 館林市 渋川市 Shibuya River
藤岡市 富岡市 安中市 みどり市 Midori City

Hot tsunami of love 勢多郡: 富士見村 Ah, Mt Fuji is visible
North Gunma 北群馬郡: 榛東村 Thinking about baseball in the wee hours of the morning
吉岡町 There is a lucky cat meowing at the door
You have many new things to try! 多野郡: 吉井町 Luck is like a well.
上野村 I'll accompany you through the wilderness
神流町 | Heaven shine your light on me
Sweet Music 甘楽郡: 下仁田町 南牧村 甘楽町
吾妻郡: 中之条町 長野原町 嬬恋村 草津町 六合村 高山村 東吾妻町
利根郡: 片品村 川場村 昭和村 みなかみ町
佐波郡: 玉村町
邑楽郡: 板倉町 明和町 千代田町 大泉町 The Big Spa
邑楽町

"田" is so funny here. One thinks of getting the harvest in and then setting to making frames for rice seedlings over the winter, for the planting. It's important to make the frames, a lot of scientific and technological thought is expressed here, and they seem a lot like pallets at the factory to me in their function and role.

田 is also a map of a ricefield, obviously. I grew up in an agricultural area in New England, fans of geology and geography know that Southern New England has a similar agricultural value to Long Island, home of legendary potato fields, Yaz, and famous tomatoes, as seen on tv's Seinfeld. I worked on the farm and lived for a month on an orange grove in Cheju, it was there that I understood how a farmer will think of his farm as a 田, and then take each quadrant and think of the quadrant as a 田, so on down to the individual plants or trees, all of which makes it possible to keep track of each precious one. I think graph paper was invented by farmers, (x + y)(x - y) and so forth.

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Gunma Prefecture is part of the Kanto Plain. Japan consists mainly of 'the Alps'; plenty of level land exists in Kanto (Tokyo) and Kansai/Kinki (Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara).