Omuta

Omuta is a city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of one January 2010, the city has an envisioned populace of 127,126 guys 58,294; women 68,832 and a populace density of 1,558.87 men and women per km². The total area is 81.55 km². The mayor is Michio Koga The oldest connection with Omuta, precisely Kunugi, one of the neighborhoods inside the modern Omuta city, is discovered in Nihonshoki 720, the bankruptcy of Emperor Keiko, whose ancient lifestyles is doubtful. In the late twelfth century, 3 ponds have been fashioned, supposedly because of volcanic pastime.

Miike, a neighborhood in Omuta, is called after the ones three ponds In 1469, a farmer named Denzaemon eventually observed coal inside the mountains while he made a bonfire. Coal mining might come to be the main industry in this place. During the Edo period, Omuta was a part of the Miike han Miike Domain, dominated with the aid of the Tachibana clan who additionally dominated Yanagawa. In 1721, Ono Harunobu, karo steward of Yanagawa han Yanagawa Domain become granted Hirano Takatori yama, and started to mine coal. During the 1850s every other two coal mines have been opened.