JIHEI YAMAMOTO'S ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVITY AND EVOLUTION OF HIS EXTERIOR DESIGN TO BE SEEN IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE LATE-MEIJI ERA : Historical Studies on Higher Educational Facilities in Japan Part 4

Abstract

This paper is a study on the evolutional state of higher educational facilities in the Late-Meiji Era. Here, paying a special attention to the activity of Jihei Yamamoto, one of the main architects in the Ministry of Education. I make clear his achievements and his works and point out his important role in the evolutional process of higher educational facilities and the feature and transition to be seen in the exterior design of main buildings in these facilities which he had designed.