Background
Shobe Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
山本
Shobe Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Acutely feeling the wholesale destruction of camphor trees in his vicinity, Shobe Yamamoto undertook the task under handicaps and at his own expense to grow camphor trees. The forest which he and his two descendants planted measured 3,016 cho in area (1 cho equals 2.4 acres).