{"id":8462,"date":"2019-09-25T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:34:42","slug":"yama-sakubei-yamamoto-coal-mine-paintings-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/yama-sakubei-yamamoto-coal-mine-paintings-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Yama: Sakubei Yamamoto Coal Mine Paintings Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tour Schedule<br>\u30fbEmbassy of Japan: 4 October &#8211; 15 November 2019<br>101-104 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT\u3000Tel: 020 7465 6500<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u30fbBig Pit National Coal Museum (Wales): 14 September 2019 &#8211; 30 September 2020<br><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/bigpit\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/museum.wales\/bigpit\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u30fbSOAS University Brunei Gallery: 3 January &#8211; 30 March 2020<br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/gallery\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u30fbNational Mining Museum Scotland: June &#8211; September 2020<br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalminingmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/nationalminingmuseum.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the age of seven years old, Sakubei Yamamoto (1892-1984) moved with his family to the coal mines of the Chikuho region in Kyushu. He became an apprentice colliery blacksmith at the age of twelve. He was a mine blacksmith and coalminer until the age of 63. Later he became a colliery security guard when he started painting his memories of the coal industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had little formal education. However, from his early twenties he began keeping the notebooks and diaries which influenced his later painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The yama [the miners&#8217; term for the coal mines] is fading away, leaving 524 mountains of rubble in the Chikuho region; and as for me, I&#8217;m no spring chicken. I&#8217;ve decided to leave behind something of the work and feelings from the yama for my grandkids. It&#8217;d be faster just to write something down, but after a couple of years, who knows, maybe the notes would just get thrown out during spring cleaning. With pictures, though, so much can be taken in just with a single glance \u2013 I&#8217;ve decided to paint.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, Sakubei Yamamoto\u2019s coal mining paintings and drawings became part of UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition focuses on a small selection of his 2000 drawings and paintings. They are very Japanese in style but any Welsh mineworker will recognise the type of work and the characters depicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp\/SeasonCulture\/EVENT\/Month\/201909\/Sep-Aug2020_BridgeTogetherProject.htm\">https:\/\/www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp\/SeasonCulture\/EVENT\/Month\/201909\/Sep-Aug2020_BridgeTogetherProject.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour Schedule\u30fbEmbassy of Japan: 4 October &#8211; 15 November 2019101-104 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT\u3000Tel: 020 7465 6500 \u30fbBig Pit National Coal Museum (Wales): 14 September 2019 &#8211; 30 September 2020https:\/\/museum.wales\/bigpit\/ \u30fbSOAS University Brunei Gallery: 3 January &#8211; 30 March 2020https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/gallery\/ \u30fbNational Mining Museum Scotland: June &#8211; September 2020https:\/\/nationalminingmuseum.com\/ At the age of seven years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}