House firehosepylon its rusted bars thick and

its rusted bars thick and unyielding against the deteriorating structure around it

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

A long corridor runs the length of one of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium's ward buildings at Wentworth Falls

the building stood vacant while a Woolworths supermarket was approved for the site

Bare birch trees line the verge and snow patches remain on the asphalt

House firehosepylon its rusted bars thick andA two storey timber house in Yubari, its upper storey wrapped in rusted corrugated steel and its lower walls shedding blue paint in long strips. Bare branches press against the facade; debris and broken timber collect at the front. The post war mining town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields, now standing largely empty. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.