Nakaosu;Okinawa;Japan

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Brick and pottery plant near Nakoshi, northeast corner of Motobu peninsula. The mud is worked over, partly with the bare feet, in the shelter at the right, and the kilns are under the roof at left. Red bricks are stacked in foreground to left and buff bricks to right and center. Clay comes from Reddish-Brown Lateritic soils from conglomerate."

View of Nakoushi and the thatched and tiled roofs of houses, the mountain slopes, and the edge of an estuary below the houses. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Another view across Nakoshi (H86) a little more to the right and more directly toward the mountains. This shows the terraced mountain slopes, largely in sweet potatoes, and the row of trees that so often marks the crest of a spur."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Terraced slopes or Reddish-Brown Lateritic to Red Podzolic soils from calcareous conglomerate and terrace sediments in sweet potatoes just southwest of Nakoshi, a village at the northeast corner of Motobu peninsula. Two women are cutting sweet potato vines on one of the terraces; a girl is carrying a bundle down the path in the valley."