Rice;Agriculture--Japan--Okinawa-ken

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Seedling beds with the rice plants beginning to show through the surface of the soil which has been made smooth with a trowel or by hand. People are chopping the paddies or tamboes for the transplants which will be set out in another 2 or 3 weeks. This is about ½ mile east of the tip of Shana Wan, Okinawa."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Ripening rice in foreground with one harvested paddy in left background, all on Alluvial soils associated with Regosol from calcareous clays. Beyond the paddies are patches of sugar cane, sweet potatoes, and manioc (cassava or tapioca), some grassed uplands with a few pines. A thatched roof shows above some ornamental plants in the middle distance."