ah, one of my favorite people ive met so far. Mr. Azuma, the farmer i worked with on the carrot farm. here he's playing his shamisen and trying to teach me the words (in the island dialect) to the folk song "Nada-so-so." he, his wife and i shared many laughs on the field. good times. you may notice that his right thumb looks a little weird....32 years ago he provoked a local poisonous viper snake, and the snake didnt like it very much, so it took off with half of his thumb. oops! i like to think that he caught the snake in the end and used the skin for his shamisen.