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*''Built: [[1890]]''
The Imperial Hotel was a prominent fixture in [[Meiji period]] [[Tokyo]]. Financed by [[Shibusawa Eiichi]], [[Okura Kihachiro|Ôkura Kihachirô]], [[Iwasaki Yanosuke]], and a number of other prominent businessmen, and located next door to the [[Rokumeikan]], it opened in [[1890]].
It was built by Ôkura's construction firm, as the Rokumeikan was in [[1881]]-[[1883]], but was much larger and more expensive. The Imperial Hotel cost 260,000 [[yen]], and was three stories tall, featuring 84 guest rooms, a ballroom that could accommodate 600 people, a library, and a number of game rooms, libraries, and a salon equipped with both organ and piano.
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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), 235.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
The Imperial Hotel was a prominent fixture in [[Meiji period]] [[Tokyo]]. Financed by [[Shibusawa Eiichi]], [[Okura Kihachiro|Ôkura Kihachirô]], [[Iwasaki Yanosuke]], and a number of other prominent businessmen, and located next door to the [[Rokumeikan]], it opened in [[1890]].
It was built by Ôkura's construction firm, as the Rokumeikan was in [[1881]]-[[1883]], but was much larger and more expensive. The Imperial Hotel cost 260,000 [[yen]], and was three stories tall, featuring 84 guest rooms, a ballroom that could accommodate 600 people, a library, and a number of game rooms, libraries, and a salon equipped with both organ and piano.
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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), 235.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
