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| *''Died: 1919'' | | *''Died: 1919'' |
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− | 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]]. | + | 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). |
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| 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''. | | 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''. |
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| 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> | | 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> |
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| + | 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. | | *Toshio Watanabe, "Japanese Imperial Architecture: From Thomas Roger Smith to Ito Chuta," in Conant, op. cit., 241. |
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