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Coal Mine Paintings by Sakubei Yamamoto

Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History(History of Kitakyushu (Meiji Period))

This is the largest coal mine painting ever made by Sakubei Yamamoto. It depicts a nearly naked man and woman digging coal, a scene of the labor that was behind Japan's industrial development. The Sakubei Yamamoto collection in Tagawa City has been designated as a UNESCO Memory of the World.