View of rice field from
Kayaze Junior High

Rice drying in the fields
near my host family's house

Mr and Mrs. Hisatomi
my host family

View from the Kayaze Dam

Naborigama Kiln
(no longer in use)

Pots waiting to be fired

Sumo ring at Kayaze Elementary Playground

Miss Dirks in front of the local shinto shrine

Female Dancers at the shrine

Mask of a kappa

Kindergarten participating in the shrine festival

Kindergarten performing taiko drummiing and dance