Artworks

Nihon Yūsen Building

Artwork · Sone Tatsuzō · 1923 · building

The headquarters of the Japan Mail Line by Sone Tatsuzō (1853–1937), Conder’s pupil and the most influential architect of late Meiji and Taishō: steel-reinforced concrete, seven storeys in a tripartite design, the first storey rusticated, the rest faced with terracotta tiles. In the great earthquake of 1923, Japanese-designed reinforced concrete fared far better than the American-built Maru Biru beside it. 1 Mason 2005, p. 348, fig. 404. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.