Studio Colour:Raw Quarrying here began around 1905

Quarrying here began around 1905 and continued until 2002

built from local hardwood and galvanised iron from the 1850s onward

picking out the scale of the load-bearing brick structure

six years into the campus's vacancy

Studio Colour:Raw Quarrying here began around 1905Sunlight cuts through the windows of a derelict studio inside the Ogurawa settlement, falling across workbenches and equipment left where they stood. The studio was part of the self contained community that Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. built around Chichibu Mine. Metal extraction at the mine ceased in 1978; the last resident left the settlement in September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.