Complete Map of Gold and Silver Mining in Sashuu

This manuscript scroll depicts what it was like inside the mine starting with the entrance of the mine, the mininng process, measuring prospecting volume, and unloading the findings. There are detailed illustrations of ore dressing, transportation, and the process of scouring to minting of kobans (old Japanese gold coins) inside the magistrate's office. Such reference materials exist for other mines, but none are as elaborate as elaborate as that of the Sado Gold Mine. This give evidence that the Sado Gold Mine has continued to operate as one of the world's largest gold and silver mines since the beginning of mining history in Heian Period to the present.