sentences:  Tokiwa started work as an announcer but dreamt of being a photographer instead, joining the women-only Shirayuri Camera Club (, "Shirayuri Kamera Kurabu"); she was influenced by the realism of Japanese photography at the time (led by Ken Domon).Some of Tokiwa's earliest photographs are of Ōsanbashi, the pier in Yokohama at which American ships docked and that was thus the site of emotional partings and reunions of American military families.She was able to photograph close up without attracting any comment, and greatly enjoyed the work.