The former main hall of the Yama Shrine is made entirely of hinoki cypress and exquisitely constructed down to the finest detail. During a recent conservation and refurbishment project, it was discovered that some of the building materials carry ink inscriptions indicating that the main hall was constructed in 1801 by carpenters from Shiwaku Kasashima.
Yoshioka Copper Mine was acquired in 1873 by Yataro Iwasaki, president of Mitsubishi Mining Co. Since that time, Mitsubishi Mining was the chief benefactor of the shrine; it donated the torii gate and many fence boards marked with the Mitsubishi emblem to the shrine. Since its construction, the Yama Shrine had long been a site of fervent worship as the guardian of copper mines, but the intensity of this devotion declined gradually following the closure of the Yoshioka Copper Mine in 1972. In 1999, the object of worship of the shrine was transferred to the Takakusa Hachiman Shrine. Nowadays, the only existing remnant left of the Yama Shrine is its former main hall, which is still popular with the local residents.

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