Abstract
Hakodate Jobiso is a building group in four brick one-story houses which was built by the KAITAKUSHI (Hokkaido Colonization Board) at Toyokawacho, Hakodate, Hokkaido in 1874 and '75. "Jobiso" means a storehouse of rice provided for emergencies. The construction of the above building group was designed in 1872 and the one among four houses erected in 1874 and the others in the next year. This building group was damaged by a spreading fire in 1907, but the two houses were restored remaining as those were nearly and those are used actually by Yasuda warehouse K.K.. This building group is well-known as the one of the works constructed at the oldest age for the brick structures existing in Japan. In the view point that this was built upon the design of Eishichi Ikeda, an architect resided in Hakodate this is a valuable work which shows how much the Japanese early in Meiji era understand a brick structure and its constructive method. The present papers investigate records on this Jobiso at the time of that erection, restoration works after the fire in 1907 and details of the structure.
