Many in the community are known by a nickname.  Katsuo Takimoto has always been called “Kumasan.”  Maintaining an air of private dignity, he has remained a bachelor and lives in a small house on the edge of the guava fields.  Kumasan appears in many of the theatrical productions and is known for memorizing his lines with the utmost seriousness.  Last year he played a very repentant Marley in a Japanese-language rendition of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
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Yuba Farm - “Kumasan”

Yuba Farm, Brazil in December 2002. Photo by Scott Smith.