Terraced slope of sweet potatoes, July 23, 1947

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Shallow Red Podzolic soils from a mixture of phyllite and greenstone in terraced slopes of 40 to 60 percent along the valley of the stream that empties into Shana Wan, Okinawa. This is along the road that crosses the island and about 2 miles southeast of the head of the bay. The terraced slope is in sweet potatoes, there are bananas in clumps near the thatched huts, and there is rice in the... floodplain. This whole area is one of the less rough ones in the mountains that form the northern part of Okinawa."