Aerial view of rice paddies and sweet potato beds, August 13, 1947

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Rice paddies, some of which have been bedded for sweet potatoes, in the valley of a small stream near the villages of Kawata and Myagusuku, east coast of northern Okinawa. Two women and a boy are chopping the the soil in one of the paddies, whereas a man has just finished cutting the ripe rice in another. The newly chopped paddies will be used for a second crop of rice this year."