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A fact from Sakubei Yamamoto appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the art and diaries of coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto were Japan's first entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sakubei Yamamoto.

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A couple of notes from while I was writing the first version:

I'm still a little confused about his birthplace. ja-wiki says (per Google Translate) "Tsurumio Kasamatsu Village, Kama District". Y-Sakubei.com says "Tsurumio (presently Iizuka city), in Kasamatsu Mura of the Kamagun". Arima says "Kasamatsu Village (currently Iizuka City), Kama County". What's the link between "Tsurumio" and "Kasamatsu" precisely and, if it's needed for clarity, what does "Mura" mean?

I'd also like to find and include full references to published works by and about Sakubei (and ideally make use of them in expanding the article, of course!):
- Y-Sakubei.com refers to:
  - "Sakubei's first collection. (eiji taisho tanko emaki [Pictures of coalmines in the Meiji/Taisho era], Publishing Committee, 1963)"
  - Life in the Coal Mines: An Anthology (1967) (given as Yama ni ikiru ["Living in the coalmine"], Kodansha, 1967 by the following)
  - Sakubei Yamamoto Anthology: The Chikuho Coal Mine Collection (1973)
- Arima refers to:
  - Okoku to yami-Yamamoto Sakubei tanko gashu [The Kingdom and Darkness-Collection of Coalmine Paintings of Yamamoto Sakubei] (Ashi Shobo, 1981)
  - Yama no kataribe–Yamamoto Sakubei no sekai [Storyteller of the coalmines–the world of Yamamoto Sakubei], Tagawa City Coal History Museum/Tagawa City Art Museum, 2008
  - "Mokuma Kikuhata, who writes that his encounter with the Sakubei paintings was “the greatest challenge to my philosophy” (Jisei no hijutsu [Secrets for living alone])"
  - Kikuhata, Kawasujiga kyojin Yamamoto Sakubei [Yamamoto Sakubei–a madman of emotionally straight paintings]
  - Tokunaga Keita, Kaiga sakuhin to shite no tanko kirokuga [The artwork of coalmine paintings]
  - This reference itself is given (at the bottom) as "Translated from Yamamoto Sakubei tanko-ga wo megutte: Shometsushita ‘kindai’to sekai kioku isan, Chuo Koron, September 2011, pp.212-221."

› Mortee _talk 02:55, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 19:44, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... the art and diaries of a coal miner, Sakubei Yamamoto, were Japan's first entry in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register? Source: "UNESCO's Memory of the World Program has accepted the paintings and diaries depicting the lives of coal miners by late artist Sakubei Yamamoto, a Fukuoka Prefecture native. This is the first time works by a Japanese will be registered in the program." Fukuoka-now.com
- Reviewed: John T. Newton

Created by Mortee (talk). Self-nominated at 23:42, 21 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

@Mortee: Very interesting! New and long enough, within policy, QPQ done, Earwig finds no copyvios, hook checks out. While outside the DYK criteria, I believe the article would benefit from a fair-use image of one of his works. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 03:09, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) thank you very much for the review. I agree that the article would be improved by an image. Fair-use seems to have depths to it that I'm not yet familiar with but I'll see about adding one if I can (not for DYK use of course). › Mortee _talk 00:49, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]