Children--Japan--Okinawa Island
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Children gathered around a reconnaissance jeep, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The crowd of Okinawans, mostly boys, gathered around the jeep used for a little reconnaissance field work on Iheya Shima, some 20 miles west of the north end of Okinawa."
Children lined up at school courtyard, October 21, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Children lined up for general instruction in the courtyard of the primary school at Kaneshi, northern Motobu peninsula. School buildings are most common type."
Children on their way to school, one child carrying a table, September 27, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Group of young Okinawan girls on their way to school at the village of Tshua, first one south of Shana Wan, afoot on the coast road with footbridge to Miyagi Shima, the island itself, and the mountain slopes above Shioya in background. One little girl has her rough table and stool; all are in their better clothes."
Children playing among timbers by houses, October 19, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Part of Shioya north of the quonset hut to show Okinawan houses completed since Del Flint first came here to work on geology less than l½ years ago. Timbers in foreground are for another house, concrete floors are where the other quonsets of the old PT-boat base stood. Children playing on the timbers. Mountain slopes in sweet potatoes."
Children playing in the school yard, April 14, 1948
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Groups of children in physical exercise in class or free at play in the school yard at the village of Ginka or Jinka, a village on the west coast of Okinawa shortly north of Motobu peninsula. The thatched buildings are the common ones for primary schools. The yard is Shioya loamy sand, on which are some sweet potatoes in left foreground."
Hentona Akiko and Cheoko at the Tsuha primary school, 1947
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Hentona Akiko and Cheoko, two Okinawan girls who live in Miyagi Shima at the mouth of the Shana Wan and are in the 8th grade at the Tsuha primary school."