Business is slow for this spice merchant in one of Ishigaki's colorful markets. She sells some of the ingredients necessary for Yaeyama cooking -- a regional Japanese cuisine. The spice is important context here, but it is the expressiveness of her hand gesture and face that provides meaning. She appears tired, perhaps bored, resigned to the fact that customers are far and few between. I also took note of how the necks of the tall bottles rhythmically repeat the flow of her fingers. Their bright orange color dominates the image and act as pointers to the hand and face above them.