Cappelletti (English name) Jean Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti

Japanese: カペレッティ（英語表記）Jean Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti

Italian architect. Date of birth and death unknown. He was a foreign employee who came to Japan in 1876 on the recommendation of the Italian Ministry of Education when the Kobu Bijutsu Gakko was opened as Japan's first institution for art education. He was in charge of drawing at the school. He later moved to the Maintenance Bureau and then to the Army, where he designed the Yushukan (1881) in the style of a medieval European castle, and the Army General Staff Headquarters (around 1881) in the Renaissance style, introducing authentic architectural style to Japan for the first time. He traveled to the United States in 1885, and died a few years later in San Francisco. [Yamaguchi Hiroshi]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

イタリアの建築家。生没年不詳。日本最初の美術教育機関として工部美術学校開設に当たり，イタリア文部省の推薦を受けて1876年来日した御雇外国人。同校で図学を担当。のち営繕局，陸軍に転じ，ヨーロッパ中世城郭風の遊就館(1881)，ルネサンス様式の陸軍参謀本部(1881ころ)を設計，本格的様式建築を初めて日本に示した。85年渡米，数年後サンフランシスコで没。【山口広】

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