Study Room red brick rust blooming in patches where

rust blooming in patches where decades of weather have worked through the metal

The sanitorium operated from 1903 to 1999

the surrounding plaster crumbling

light pushing through a broken window onto disused fixtures

Study Room red brick rust blooming in patches whereA CRT monitor and keyboard sit on a low timber table over deteriorating tatami, shoji windows shattered behind them, curtains hanging in strips. This was company housing in the Ogurawa settlement, built and operated by Nitchitsu Co. Ltd. to support the Chichibu Mine workforce. The settlement was uninhabited from September 2006. Part of the Nichitsu Mining Village series.