Agriculture--Japan--Okinawa-ken;Okinawa Island (Japan);Sweet potatoes
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field of young sweet potatoes, October 30, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-63
Scope and Contents
Field of young sweet potatoes near Nakajin in the northern Motobu peninsula. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Bed of young sweet potatoes on soil shown in H62 with beds of older plants beyond. Pines are the common Okinawa species."
Dates:
October 30, 1947
Stepped upland slope with sweet potatoes, July 20, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-149
Scope and Contents
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."
Dates:
July 20, 1947
Terraced slope of sweet potatoes, July 23, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: H-3
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...
Dates:
July 23, 1947