A STUDY OF NAKAMURA TATSUTARO’S ELEMENTARY ARCHITECTURE (PART 1):ON ITS FORMATION AND PUBLICATION

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the early work of Nakamura Tatsutaro (1860–1942) titled Elementary Architecture. This study attempts to analyze it in terms of three aspects: architectural education, the publisher, and its translation. Nakamura wrote this book with the aim of training mid-career architectural engineers, and it was published by his father's publishing company. Nakamura translated books from overseas and wrote a series of articles as a draft in the Journal of Architecture in Japan, which he edited himself. This is a distinctive example of the process of accepting Western architecture in the Meiji period.