Children play on the bridge in front of Sadosan Seiren Printing in Chigusa, Kanazawa Village

Nibo Village in Kuninaka Plain. The bridge in front of Sanno-hiyoshi Shrine is a playground for children

2 children of Toyo Miyatake playing riding tricycles in the sunset

Agricultural Center of Kanazawa Village Nakaoki Sado country, circa 5th Year of Showa. Presently, Sado Agricultural Technology Center

A peaceful scenery of a water mill in front of the entrance of a Bishamon (temple) in Hirashimizu, Kanazawa Village

Jizo worshipping is deeply rooted in Sado culture and the island is dotted with halls for praying. At Owada, Kanazawa Village

At the Ryotsu Port bus station in the 11th Year of Showa, guided bus tours mark the beginning of tourism boom in Sado

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 15: A groundless quarrel. －..Yes, Sir, do me the pleasure of giving that jovial fellow a brief respite... understood that the aforesaid gentleman denies himself the printing of my newspaper, and by this fact ruins my undertaking; to see oneself condemned to 67,000 f[rancs] of losses and interest... －But on what is his refusal grounded? －Oh, on a foolishness.... a trifle... on what I should pay him in cash, for which I'm 21 months in arrears... it's a poor pretext, a groundless quarrel

The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play －Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: －Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. －The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’