Thank you very much for your connection. The photos represent the complete condition of the items being sent. Vintage, used book. All pages can be read. Thank you. Rural Body Sales and Communities Until the Pacific War, body sales due to debt were common in the rural areas of Okinawa. This most often involved poor farmers being subordinate to wealthy farmers and engaging in farm work, with the form varying depending on the region. Wealthy farmers were called "Wake" (Uyaki) or "Buginsha" (wealthy person), and owned a lot of land and livestock. They were also called "Sekimochi" (those who hold Seki), meaning those who became wealthy by expanding cultivated land (Shimei/Seki). Wake were agricultural managers themselves, renting out part of their land to tenant farmers, and also hosting Moai (rotating credit associations), economically dominating the village community as moneylenders. Poor farmers became tenant farmers under these Wake, and when their debts increased, they were employed as domestic labor for the Wake. Those with a strong character of servitude were called "Nja" (Inza/Inja) or "Njakkuwa." In some places, they were also called "Yanchu" (family member) or "Yatui" (employee). Itoman Sale The practice of poor children around the age of 10 serving a term of service in exchange for a loan to fishermen in Itoman, southern Okinawa Island, was called "Itoman sale." It was also sometimes referred to as "Itoman sale" when sold to other fishing villages in Okinawa. Especially in the northern part of Okinawa Island (Yanbaru) and remote islands, there were many extremely poor people, and many children were sold in the Itoman sale.