Josiah Conder

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Josiah Conder (September 28, 1852 - June 21, 1920) was named the "Father of Japanese architecture". A British architect born in London, he designed the Rokumeikan (Hall of the Baying Stag) and educated many Japanese architects who later won distinction, notably Tatsuno Kingo who designed Tokyo Station. Conder was employed at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo from 1877.

He was a teacher of four famous Japanese architects: Kingo Tatsuno, Tokuma Katayama, Tatsuzo Sone and Shichijiro Satachi, who became first Japanese architects to build western-style buildings in Japan in Meiji era.

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Dallas Finn, 'Josiah Conder (1852-1920) and Meiji Architecture', Ch. 5, Britain & Japan: Themes and Personalities, ed. Hugh Cortazzi and Gordon Daniels, London: Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0-415-05966-6