This time, we trace Japan’s legend of gold. The precious metal was actually first mined in Michinoku — an old name for northern Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures — in the 8th century Nara period. A photographer visits Hiraizumi and its golden Konjikido, meets a gold leaf artisan, ducks into an old mine and even pans for gold.
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