Hard work still prevails on the small farms of post-land reform Japan, 1950. Here, a young woman dressed in monpei works in an irrigated field with a pitchfork. Color photo was taken by an American couple in Occupied Japan.

From: Nippon 40-nen mae (Japan, Forty Years Ago), special issue of Mainichi Gurafu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, August 15, 1985.