Sakubei Yamamoto

Sakubei Yamamoto
山本作兵衛
Born(1892-05-17)17 May 1892
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Died19 December 1984(1984-12-19) (aged 92)
Known forScenes of mining life in 20th century Japan
StyleSumi-e, watercolour, naïve art

Sakubei Yamamoto (山本作兵衛, 17 May 1892 – 19 December 1984) was a Japanese coal miner and artist. His sumi-e and watercolour work, which was heavily annotated, depicted the life he had experienced as a miner, and a collection of his paintings and diaries formed the first Japanese entry in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, inscribed in 2011.

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