Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the design methods for building the western-style architecture through the Japanese carpentry books published in the Meiji period. The western-style architecture was built to imitate the western architecture by Japanese carpenters with disregard to its historical background after the end of the Tokugawa period. Early studies did not verify how the traditional technique had been introduced into the design method of western-style architecture. We clarified that Kichirobei Kameda, the master carpenter in Fukuoka, had applied the traditional design technique to the western-style architecture in his carpentry book entitled ‘Kiku-Junjyo-Shin-Hinagata-Taizen.’ We confirmed in this study that the master carpenter adopted the modular design system, ‘KIWARI’ into the western-style architecture.

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