THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 6, 2021 at 18:42 JST
In this photo from around 1925, young women in Itoman sell fish, caught by their fathers or husbands, from a cargo container they carried on their head. Striped kimono was daywear for ordinary people. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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