Our little copper town-Ashio has been the setting in many works of literature. Here are some of them.
[NANSO SATOMI HAKKENDEN] by Bakin Takizawa
[KOFU ] (meaning "the miner") by Soseki Natsume
[NIKKO SHOHIN] by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The drama [MEIJI-no-HITSUGI] by Ken Miyamoto
[TSUCHI] (meaning "the earth") by Setsu Nagatsuka
[KODOKU] (meaning "Mining Pollition") by Sachio Ito
[DOZAN] (meaning "the Copper Mine") by Junji Kinoshita
[ANA] (meaning "the hole") by Yuzo Yamamoto
[ONTYO-no-TANI] by Wahei Tatematsu
Other people who made works about Ashio:
KAWAHIGASHI HEKIGODO:
He came to Ashio in during his travels around the whole of Japan in 1906. He continued his travel to Lake Chuzenji-ko from the Kuzo River after he met the executives of the copper mine in Uenotaira.
YAMAGUCHI SEISON:
He worked at the Furukawa company as a copper engineer for two years early in the Taisho era. He came to Ashio again as a haiku poet in1943.
