Okinawa;Japan

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small sinkhole in landscape of Reddish-Brown Lateritic soils from limestone, a few miles south of Ishikawa, which has been widened by Okinawans to provide more land for cultivation. Sweet potatoes on Alluvial soil and on upland, banana hedge near hut, sumac at edge."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small tilled patches of ledgy Brown Forest soil from limestone that will soon be planted to sweet potatoes on Hedo Misaki; rocks are mainly outcrops with a few loose ones. Small pines and cycads lie beyond the tilled patches, and the mountainous coast of Okinawa shows faintly in the distance."

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A small valley of various crops a few miles south of Ishikawa, Okinawa. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "A small valley across road from sinkhole in G148 with sugarcane, bananas, sweet potatoes, and rice on the Alluvial soil. Upland slopes are in Okinawa pine, poor stand."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The south coast of Okinawa, showing the limestone-capped lower plateau, the upland slopes with a small village and with dry-land crops, the coral reef, and the surf from the Philippine Sea. There are cycads in the foreground and rice paddies on the low beach plain. Most of the area is in grass."

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A stepped upland slope with Brown Forest soil from limestone. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Stepped upland slope, same soil as that in G148 with sumac at right, with sweet potatoes in various stages of growth. One patch ready for planting."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Stormy waters of Nago Wan with the surf breaking strongly on the reef offshore, a few miles south of the town of Nago. Besena Misaki, one of the more prominent points of spots along the west coast, appears in the distance."

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Surf breaking across the rocks of Nago Wan bay, south of the town of Nago. Besena Misaki appears in the distance. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Stormy waters a little to left of view in H51."

Scope and Contents 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...

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Okinawan house with grass sides and thatch, bamboo switch fence, built in the village of Chitchaltu, northeastern Motobu peninsula, after the people were allowed to re-occupy the land. Papaya tree to right, castor bean to the left, chickens in yard."

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Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small clump of Okinawan houses with thatched roofs, surrounded by coarse grass vegetation, before some hills of sand in a landscape dominantly Regosols from calcareous clays. Few cultivated patches on Alluvial soils in foreground, and some bare faces in the sand."