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A miner painted what he remembered of the pits; his 697 works became Japan's first entry in the Memory of the World register.
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Sakubei Yamamoto (山本作兵衛, 17 May 1892 – 19 December 1984) was a Japanese coal miner and artist. His sumi-e and watercolour work, which was heavily annotated, depicted the life he had experienced as a miner, and a collection of his paintings and diaries formed the first Japanese entry in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, inscribed in 2011.
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Founded / opened：1983 Highlights / collection：697 coal-mine paintings by Sakubei Yamamoto, Memory of the World Genre：Nihonga (Japanese-style painting), Photography
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