Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzo

Sone Tatsuzō ( Japanese 曽 禰 達 蔵 ; born January 3, 1852 in Edo (now Tokyo ); † December 6, 1937 ) was one of the first modern architects in Japan.

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Sone was born the son of a samurai in the Edo residence of Karatsu-han . With Tatsuno Kingo and Katayama Tōkuma, he was one of the first students who attended the newly founded Kōbu Daigakkō u. a. studied under Josiah Conder and graduated in 1879. After working as a marine engineer for a while, he joined the Mitsubishi company in 1890 , where he worked on their office building complex in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo.

In 1906 he left Mitsubishi and founded his own office, continuing to work for Mitsubishi, other companies and other clients. This is how he became an influential architect in Japan in the 1920s and 30s

Buildings (selection)

• 1904 Senjō Pavilion ( 占 所 閣 , Senjō-kaku ) in Nagasaki, built on the occasion of the victory in the Japanese-Russian War
• 1912 Keiō University , University Library, Tokyo
• 1917 Tōkyō-Kajō building, Tokyo
• 1923 Nihon-Yūsen building, Kobe
• 1925 (old) main building of the prefectural administration of Kagoshima
• 1933 Meidi-ya ( 明治 屋 , Meiji-ya ), Tokyo

photos

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  Senjō Pavilion

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  Keiō UB

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  Keiō UB

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  Yūsen building

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  Meidi-ya, Tokyo

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  Kagoshima Prefectural Administration

literature

• Tazawa Yutaka: Sone Tatsuzo. In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art . Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .

Web links

Commons : Sone Tatsuzō  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photos of structures

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