THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 29, 2021 at 19:21 JST
Young women in Itoman around 1925. They are selling fish caught by their father or husband, putting it in a cargo they carried on their head. It was common for relatives of fishermen to wear striped kimono. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
In a rare, recently unearthed photo believed to have been shot in 1935, two women walk barefoot carrying large cargo on their heads in what is now Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. [Read More]
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