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*''Japanese'': 山ヶ野金山 ''(Yamagano kinzan)''
The Yamagano gold mines were a series of [[gold]] mines located in what is today Kirishima City, [[Kagoshima prefecture]]. They were controlled in the [[Edo period]] by the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and continued to be controlled by that family into the [[Meiji period]].
By [[1907]], new mining technologies relied upon electricity, and so the Shimazu had a power station built in the Hayato-chô area of Kirishima; this was known as the Suitenbuchi power station.
By 1983, the old power station building came to be controlled by the Kyuhu Electric Power company; in that year, a portion of the old building was used to construct a monument to the station, erected at [[Sengan'en]], the former private gardens of the Shimazu lords.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15151111707/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Geographical Locations]]
The Yamagano gold mines were a series of [[gold]] mines located in what is today Kirishima City, [[Kagoshima prefecture]]. They were controlled in the [[Edo period]] by the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and continued to be controlled by that family into the [[Meiji period]].
By [[1907]], new mining technologies relied upon electricity, and so the Shimazu had a power station built in the Hayato-chô area of Kirishima; this was known as the Suitenbuchi power station.
By 1983, the old power station building came to be controlled by the Kyuhu Electric Power company; in that year, a portion of the old building was used to construct a monument to the station, erected at [[Sengan'en]], the former private gardens of the Shimazu lords.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15151111707/sizes/h/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Geographical Locations]]