− | Meiji education: by 1890, there were 28,000 timber-floored schools in Japan with sash windows and hinged doors. -William Coaldrake. Architecture and Authority in Japan. p210.
| + | roughly 3000 oyatoi gaikokujin came to Meiji Japan at the invitiation of the government. By far the most of them were employed by the Ministry of Education, and were specialists in engineering and architecture. -Coaldrake, Art and Authority. p216. |