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*''Died: 1919''
*''Died: 1919''
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent [[Meiji period]] architect, known in particular for the [[Bank of Japan]] building, completed in [[1896]], and [[Tokyo Station]].
Tatsuno Kingo was a prominent [[Meiji architecture|Meiji period architect]], known in particular for the [[Bank of Japan]] building, completed in [[1896]], and [[Tokyo Station]] (1914).
Tatsuno studied under [[Josiah Conder]] at the Imperial College of Engineering (''[[Kobu gakko|Kôbu gakkô]]'') in Tokyo, and later traveled to London, in [[1880]], to pursue further training in Western/modern architecture. He returned to Japan in [[1883]], and the following year succeeded Conder as head of the architecture department at the ''Kôbu gakkô''.
His design for the Bank of Japan closely resembles that of the Bank of Belgium, which he visited, along with other European bank buildings, at the urging of Minister [[Matsukata Masayoshi]].<ref>Finn, 233.</ref>
Tatsuno also designed the railway station at Hamadera-kôen, in [[Sakai]] ([[Osaka prefecture]]). Completed in [[1907]] and still in active use until January 2016, it is the oldest still-extant railway station building operated by a private railway company in the country.<ref>"[http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201601280044 End of the line for 109-year-old railway station building in Osaka]," ''Asahi Shimbun'', 28 Jan 2016.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Dallas Finn, "Reassessing the Rokumeikan," in Ellen Conan (ed.), ''Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 227.
*Dallas Finn, "Reassessing the Rokumeikan," in Ellen Conant (ed.), ''Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art'', University of Hawaii Press (2006), 227.
*Toshio Watanabe, "Japanese Imperial Architecture: From Thomas Roger Smith to Ito Chuta," in Conant, op. cit., 241.
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