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In the Meiji Era Japan tried to modernize herself adopting advanced industrial technologies of Europe and America. Thus, many cotton spinning mills were built as one of the main industries. However, it has been an open question how these mills were planned actually. The author discussed construction of the cotton spinning mill of Kumamoto Boseki Co. Ltd. in Kumamoto, which has been supposed to be built in 1896, transformed as a shoe factory later and then finally demolished in 2003. He made his own measurements and drawings and researched the original export documents at Lancashire Record Office in UK. Comparing the drawings, English documents, and the other information, he cleared the followings; 1) the mill was originally built in 1894 and extended 1896, 2) the machinery was imported from an English maker of cotton spinning machinery, Dobson & Barlow Ltd., and 3) the plan of the mill was evidently based on the drawings which the company made.