This mine was also nicknamed, "Tenryo" as it was the main resource that financed the Tokugawa shogunate's fortune.
Jean Francisque Coignet (1835 - 18 June 1902) was a French mining engineer and government advisor in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan noted for his modernization of the Ikuno Silver Mine at Ikuno, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe.
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