This paper states concerning the characteristics of the Nihon-Shumi(Japan-Taste) architecture in Yokoamicho Park. These buildings are additional facilities of the Memorial Hall for Great Kanto Earthquake that discussed in ahead of this research. The paper clarified the construction process of Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum which built in 1931. In this study, the project report of the Great Kanto Earthquake Association and materials in the storage of Memorial Hall for Great Kanto Earthquake are used as the main requirements to analyze the construction of the Memorial Museum. Also, the news articles are used as the requirements, 22pieces of articles were collected by the newspaper; Asahi, Yomiuri, Tokyo Nichi-Nichi, Miyako, Hochi which published in Tokyo and throughout Japan, From 1923 to 1931.
As the result, the design of Memorial Museum has been changed 3 times. At first, the Museum was constructed from 9th November 1929 to 24th March 1930. The elevation was composed of symmetry influenced by classicism style. The Japanese shrines and temple style was well expressed in a roof and a piece of wood supporting deeply recessed eaves, esp. in Japanese shrines and temple construction, curve shape in decoration, garden lantern.
However, the newspaper reported that the Museum's design changed on 3rd September in 1930 that was after the construction of Memorial Hall. The change was embodied the Japanese shrines and temple style such as the roof style, final of the pagoda.
Finally, the design was changed again before the Memorial Museum's construction on 26th September 1930. The blueprint drawings that drew up on September 1930 shows that the floor plan based on the first plan, and the elevation plan based on the second plan. It can be inferred that the designer was Koichi Hagiwara, the construction engineer of the Great Kanto Earthquake Association. Also, the floor and elevation plan transformed to rectangle-shape, and the style was changed uniquely such as circle decoration in the door and the monster sculpture in elevation. In the 3rd design, the Japanese shrines and temple style changed to the modern and simple elements in the details of roof and door, etc. Furthermore, it had influenced by Art Deco Style and it could be presumed the possibility that the simple and modern style of 3rd design was related to the main designer, Hagiwara. He asserted that style through his other architectural activities.
So, it makes clear that the design of Memorial Museum was originally planned to Nihon-Shumi(Japan-Taste) architecture. Also, it was mainly based on Japanese shrines and temple style as an extension of the Memorial Hall's design that was based on traditional Japanese style. But, Memorial Museum had adapted to the trend and suggested the new expression of Japanese shrines and temple style with details influenced by Art Deco style. Also, it can be assumed that Memorial Museum's design was reflected the times that was changing the concept to express Nihon-Shumi(Japan-Taste). The reason why the Museum planned Nihon-Shumi(Japan-Taste) architecture can guess the relations with the Memorial Hall which is the main building in Yokoamicho Park.
