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.
