Living Quarters Size:S built to carry the weight

built to carry the weight of industrial milling machinery across multiple floors

their weathered surfaces shaped as much by Hokkaido winters as by decades of neglect

The wards were part of a pavilion-type layout designed from 1880 for moral therapy

Poker and Pachinko at Nikko

coated in dust and discoloured with age

Living Quarters Size:S built to carry the weightA fusuma panel lies collapsed across the tatami matting of a residential room in the Ogurawa settlement, Nichitsu Mining Village. Shoji screens remain upright against the far wall, alongside built in shelving. Company housing at the settlement was stratified by rank, with workers' blocks and managers' residences each built to different standards. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.