Born at Hiroshima, Japan, Kauai master farmer Jinkuro Ota (1878-1962) had been farming at Huleia, Kauai, for 20 years when the photograph accompanying this story was taken in 1930.
At that time, he and his wife, Yoshino, and their eight children, were making a nice living at Huleia on an intensely cultivated three-acre farm.
Ota’s livestock consisted of 20 pigs and 202 White Leghorn, 68 Rhode Island Red, 43 Buff Orpingtons and 15 Barred Rock chi…