Abstract
The Sale and Reception Room of the KAITAKUSHI (completed in 1881) is the first one of works in Japan by J. Conder (Professor at the Imperial Collage of Engineering; 1852-1920, M. R. I. B. A.) and a representative one of occidental buildings in early years of the Era of Meiji. In this paper it is carried on to give of outlines of the texts of J. Conder's thirty-one letters directed to the KAITAKUSHI from the 13th of March in 1878 to the 5th of October in 1880 about the design and the construction of the above building. These letters have been discovered quite recently by the auther and is opened to the public here.
