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Knowledge on Mining and Smelting and Its Dissemination in the Edo Period (2020)

Mathias, Regine (Author)

Renaissance Books
Pages: 69-95
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv176ktd4.8

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Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Smelting Natural resources Mineralogy Copper and copper industry Gold Mines and mining Metals and metallic compounds Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868) Japan

Although Japan is today widely considered to be lacking in natural mineral resources, the country did have rich ore deposits in historical times. Gold, silver and copper deposits were concentrated in the Tōhoku region and the Kansai area. Gold deposits were also found on the island of Sado, in the mountains of the Kantō region, on the Izu peninsula, and in Satsuma (present-day Kagoshima prefecture), and copper was mined in many parts of Japan. During the Edo period (1600–1868), among the most important mines were the silver mines of Iwami/Ōmori¹ (Shimane), Ikuno (Hyōgo) and Innai (Akita), the gold mines

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