The careers of the architectural engineers from the building agency of Meiji Imperial Place and its relation between the daiku organization in the Edo era

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24560788
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Architectural history/design
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: OZAWA Asae 東海大学, 工学部, 教授 (70212587)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 明治宮殿 / 皇居造営事務局 / 建築技術者 / 図工 / 大工

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to consider personnel formation of the relation between the building agency of Meiji Imperial palace and Daiku organization in the Edo era. Especially about draftmen,considering their adopt, the working and career path of 62 of them having worked till 1888 by the documents of the Imperial Household Agency.
As the result, the facts that some of them were from the building staff from Higashi-honganji temple or brothers and sons of dedicated architects from Daiku families, and more than half of them were employed as offcial architects. Taking Tenakachiyotaro from Miyadaiku for example, the details of his employment and duties are defined by his dairy.

Free Research Field

日本建築史・近代建築史・日本住宅史