Storeroom Size:XL Dust motes and collapsed timber

Dust motes and collapsed timber mark what remains

Part of the Family School Fureai series

Built up through more than a century of continuous operation under four corporate identities

designed by architect George Sydney Jones and opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for male patients

textbooks scattered across the floor

Storeroom Size:XL Dust motes and collapsed timberForgotten supplies line the shelves of a storeroom inside the Ogurawa settlement, coated in years of dust. Diffuse light passes through a grimy window, picking out the remnants of a community that once housed an entire industrial workforce. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.