1st post-quake graduates from plastering course

1st post-quake graduates from plastering course

SENDAI, Japan - A ceremony is held for six students graduating a half-year plastering course at the Sendai Polytechnic Institute in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2014, to become the first plasterers since the school's temporary closure caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.

A girl holding a tea set

A girl holding a tea set

A young woman is serving tea. When carpenters and plasterers were hired for work, a maid served tea in this style. The young age of the woman suggests that she is an apprentice.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐64‐0]

1st post-quake graduates from plastering course

1st post-quake graduates from plastering course

SENDAI, Japan - A ceremony is held for six students graduating a half-year plastering course at the Sendai Polytechnic Institute in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2014, to become the first plasterers since the school's temporary closure caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)