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A man plows a field in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, on Thursday in front of Mt. Kasagatake, on which snow forms the shape of a white horse. The shape used to symbolize the start of the rice farming season in the area. For a while each year, as the winter snow melts, what remains on the side of this 2,...