Tatsuno Kingo

Tatsuno Kingo

Tatsuno Kingo ( Japanese 辰 野 金吾 ; born October 13, 1854 in Karatsu ; † March 25, 1919 ) was one of the first modern architects in Japan.

biography

Kingo was the son of a samurai from the Karatsu fiefdom . From 1873 to 1879 he studied at the Kōgaku-ryō (School of Engineering; later Kōbu Daigakkō , today Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo ) as the first class. One of his teachers there was Josiah Conder .

In 1880 Kingo moved to Great Britain, where he studied architectural design at the Royal Academy of Arts under W. Burges (1828–1881). In 1883 he returned to Japan, where he became a professor at the University of Tokyo a year later. After the severe Mino-Owari earthquake in 1891 ( 美濃 尾張 地震 , Mino-Owari jishin ) in the prefectures of Aichi and Gifu , he changed the curriculum of the faculty. Up until then, the training focused on architectural details, but now more emphasis has been placed on the security of the overall structure.

In 1886 Kingo brought together his architecture colleagues and representatives from construction companies. The "Architectural Society of Japan" ( 日本 建築 学会 , Nihon kenchiku gakkai ) was founded, and he became its central figure.

In 1902 Kingo gave up his chair and opened his own architecture office, which attracted many orders. Much of his buildings are red-brick buildings, and he occasionally designed buildings in the “modernized Japanese style”, such as the Nara Hotel. However, his lifelong dream of building the parliament building did not come true.

Buildings (small selection)

• 1896: Bank of Japan , Tokyo
• 1903: Bank of Japan, Osaka branch
• 1906: Bank of Japan, Kyōto branch
• 1906: Daiichi-Kangyō-Bank, Kyōto
• 1906: Kyōto Museum - Extension, Kyōto
• 1908: Hamaderakōen Station, Sakai
• 1908: Daiichi Kangyō Bank, Kobe
• 1909: Nara Hotel, Nara
• 1909: the first Ryogoku Kokugikan , Tokyo (burned down in 1917)
• 1911: Bank Iwate, Morioka
• 1912: Manseibashi Station , Tokyo
• 1912: Chōsen Ginkō , Seoul
• 1914: Tokyo Central Station , Tokyo
• 1914: Nihon Seimei Hoken , Kyōto
• 1916: Hokkoku Bank, Kyōto
• 1918: Nakanoshima Concert Hall, Osaka
• 1918: Reinanzaka Church, Tokyo

gallery

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  Bank of Japan, Tokyo

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  Nissay Fukuoka branch

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  Nara Hotel

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  Daiichi Kangyō Bank, Kyoto

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  Chosen Ginko, Seoul

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  Tokyo Central Station

Remarks

1. ↑ Tatsuno was able to win the diplomat Aoki Shūzō as founding president . He himself assumed the presidency from 1898 to 1903 and from 1905 to 1917.

literature

• Tazawa Yutaka: Tatsuno Kingo. In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Yoshikawa, Seiichi u, Mizuno, Shintaro (eds.); The Tokyo Station and Kingo Tatsuno. Toyko Station Gallery, 1990.

Web links

Commons : Tatsuno Kingo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Photos of the structures

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Tatsuno is the family name, Kingo the first name.