Shimoda Kikutaro
| Kikutarō Shimoda | |
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Shimoda Kikutarō
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| Born |
June 14, 1866 Akita Prefecture |
| Died | December 26, 1931 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | United States of America (Naturalised) |
| Other names | George Shimoda |
| Alma mater | Imperial College of Engineering (incomplete) |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice |
A. Page Brown D. H. Burnham & Company Offices of G.K. Shimoda (Chicago) Shimoda Chikusō Gōshi Kaisha |
| Buildings | Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Nagasaki, Japan Tor Hotel, Kobe Shanghai Club Building (Interior) |
| Design | Imperial Crown Amalgamate Style |
Shimoda Kikutarō (Japanese: 下田 菊太郎, 2 May 1866 – 26 December 1931) was an architect who created the prototype of the Imperial Crown Style for the Japanese Empire. He was a native of Akita, in northern Honshu, and moved to Tokyo in 1881, when he was fifteen. At Keio University, he enrolled in an architecture course under Josiah Conder.
Kikutarō Shimoda was born in 1886, was the eldest son of Satake clansman, Junchū Shimoda, in Kakunodate, Akita (now part of Semboku, Akita, Japan. During his third year studies at Akita Junior High School (秋田中学校 Akita chū gakkō), he moved to Tokyo to take up language studies at Mita English Language School (三田英語学校 Mita eigo gakkō), after which in 1883 he took the entrance exams for the Imperial College of Engineering (工部大学校 Kōbu Daigakkō) (now part of the University of Tokyo). Out of the 1000 entrance exam participants, Shimoda passed the exams placed 47th out of the top fifty passing entrants.
In 1885 having passed the entrance exams, Shimoda enrolled in the School of Architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering, along with Tamisuke Yokogawa. Not satisfied with Tatsuno Kingo's lectures, who had recently returned from studying in the United Kingdom, Shimoda also took lectures from Hanroku Yamaguchi, who had been conducting lectures on French School architecture, which was not a mainstream architectural movement, at the Department of Education. During this time, Shimoda translated, European and American General Architecture, and taught English at Seisoku English Language School (正則英語学校 Seisoku eigo gakkō) (present day, Seisoku Gakuen High School. In 1889 his father died suddenly, and Shimoda took out an Army scholarship-loan.
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