THE PICTURESQUE SIDE OF JAPANESE LIFE 



Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamoto 



A FARMER'S DAUGHTER STOPS TO REST WHILE ON HER WAY TO THE CITY MARKET 



In her hands she holds the doughnut-shaped mat of straw which she uses as a pad when carrying her bundle 

 of fagots on her head. This is not the every-day garb of the farm laborer; she is in her "Sunday best," for her fuel 

 must be peddled from house to house in town. 



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