The Chikuhō coalfield is located on Kyushu Island, Japan. With the promotion of industrial development and the establishment of the Yahata Steel Works, zaibatsu companies and major capital investment
Mitsui-Tagawa coal mine chimney
Mitsubishi-Iizuka coal mine
Buzen Province was a province of Japan in the area of northeastern Kyūshū, corresponding to part of southeastern Fukuoka Prefecture and northwestern Ōita Prefecture. Buzen bordered on Bungo to the sou
Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Bungo" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting the route to Rakan-ji temple in 1856
Usa Jingu, the ichinomiya of the province
Ogasawara Tadanobu, final daimyō of Kokura Domain