Quasi-Western style architecture

Japanese: 擬洋風建築 - ぎようふうけんちく

…He became an apprentice to master carpenter Shimizu Kisuke (1783-1859), married into the Shimizu family in 1839 (Tenpo 10), and became the second head of the family in 1859 (Ansei 6). With the help of Ii Naosuke, who had been a regular customer since the first head of the family, he expanded into Yokohama and built the Foreign Magistrate's Office and the Foreigners' Prison, while absorbing Western architectural styles. After the Meiji Restoration, he designed the Mitsui House (1872) and the Exchange Bank Mitsui (1872), which were masterpieces of an eclectic style known as pseudo-Western architecture. He is the ancestor of the current Shimizu Corporation. …

From the balcony

… From the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period, the foreign-style houses built in the foreign settlements, including Nagasaki, were all in the colonial style with verandas. While the pillars and arches were classical, the veranda ceilings were made of woven thin boards curved into a vault in the Southeast Asian style. In the so-called pseudo-Western architecture by Japanese craftsmen, verandas of this kind were particularly popular, and until around the 1880s, they were considered a symbol of Western-style architecture. [Fukuda Harunobu] …

*Some of the terminology used to describe "Ge-Western architecture" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…大工棟梁清水喜助(1783‐1859)の弟子となり，1839年(天保10)清水家に入婿，59年(安政6)2代目を名乗る。初代より出入りの井伊直弼の周旋で横浜に進出し，外国奉行所や異人牢などを建設する一方で西欧建築の様式を吸収し，明治維新後みずから設計した三井組ハウス(1872)，為替バンク三井組(1872)により，擬洋風建築と呼ばれる折衷様式の傑作を世に現した。現在の清水建設の祖である。…

【ベランダ】より

…　幕末から明治初期にかけ，長崎をはじめとする居留地に造られた異人館は，すべてベランダ付きのコロニアル･スタイルで，柱やアーチは古典風ながら，ベランダ天井は薄板を編んだ網代をボールト状に湾曲させた東南アジア風のものが用いられていた。日本人工匠によるいわゆる擬洋風建築では，とくにこうしたベランダが好まれ，明治20年代ころまでは，これが洋風建築のシンボルとみなされていた。【福田晴虔】。…

※「擬洋風建築」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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