"The women of the village carry the fish in the homemade bamboo baskets to the markets and points of shipment to the cities. There were many ways for the boat owners and their fishermen employees and the employees' wives to be paid for their services. Sometimes the boat was operated as an informal co-op; in other cases, the men were simply wage earners, and their wives could or could not keep small percentages of the sales. And so on."

From: Bennett, John W. Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir. Portfolio 13, Image No. 276, http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/japan/2_13_photos.html (10 January 2006).