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Ende-Boeckmann was a German architectural firm originally hired by Foreign Minister [[Inoue Kaoru]] to design and build the [[National Diet Building]], High Court, and Ministry of Justice.
Their initial designs incorporated Japanese or Oriental(ist) architectural features, such as pagoda towers and sweeping roofs. In [[1889]], a new cabinet under [[Yamagata Aritomo]] sent the Germans back to the drawing board, demanding more fully Western designs.
The firm ended up completing the High Court and Ministry of Justice, but after minister [[Matsukata Masayoshi]] condemned the great cost of the latter (991,000 [[yen]], roughly four to five times the cost of the [[Imperial Hotel]] or [[Rokumeikan]]), only a temporary wooden Diet Building was completed, rather than the grander, more permanent one they had planned for. Their contract was cut short in [[1890]] after these buildings were completed, and the government turned to Japanese architects to complete other government buildings.
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==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), 233, 235.
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