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Uheiji Nagano was an architect who practiced in Taiwan during the time of the Japanese Empire.[1]

Nagano Uihiraji (Nagano no Keiji, September 1, 1867 September 1, 1867 - December 14, 1937 ) is a Japanese architect. The first architect of the Japan Architect Society . Known as a disciple of Katsuro Tatsuno , he left numerous bank architectures . Born in Takada, Echigo (present: Joetsu, Niigata prefecture ).

A proposed design for the Office Building of the Governor General of Taiwan by Uheiji Nagano, 1909
Completed building, now the Presidential Office Building, Taipei, Taiwan.

In the early years, Nara prefecture office building of Japanese and Western style design was designed and gained evaluation. In 1897, he became an engineer of the Bank of Japan, and under the guidance of Katsuro Tatsuno construction advisor, engaged in design supervision of 9 buildings in the Meiji period branches such as Osaka, Kyoto, Otaru branch offices. In 1909, he went to the Taiwan Governor's office building competition which became the first competition in Japan in 1909, temporarily served as a Taiwan Governor General's office after leaving the Bank of Japan and Taisho 2 (1913) We designed a classical style architecture such as Bank of Japan Okayama Branch and Okura Spiritual Culture Research Institute. In 1917 he became the first president of the Japanese Architects Association (later the Japan Architects Association), aiming to establish the architect 's law to establish the function of the architect. 1927 (1927) When the temporary building department was established for the extension of the main bank store of BOJ, it became BOJ engineer again, designing and supervising 4 buildings in the Showa period in Showa period such as the headquarters extension expansion · Hiroshima · Matsue branch office etc. 1938 (1938) died at the end of 1955, when the expansion of the main building was near completion. The Bank of Japan branch office worked by Nagano Ujiraira, the war-brand branch building before the war, was included in the Meiji era when including the fact that the main building damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake was repaired as designed by Takano Tatsuno in 1923 , 1 in the Taisho era, 3 in the Showa era, 8 in total. Bank construction other than the Bank of Japan also designed through the BOJ era before and after the Meiji / Showa era and the design office era during the Taisho year, and there are also existing ones.

  • 1884 (Meiji 17) - graduated from Takada school , preparatory education at Kyoritsu school
  • 1885 (Meiji 18) - First Primary Secondary Junior High School enrollment
  • 1890 (Meiji 23) - Graduated from Dai-Ichi Junior High School
  • 1893 (Meiji 26) - graduated from the Imperial University Institute of Technology
  • 1893 (Meiji 26) - Yokohama Customs Consignment (~ 1894 / Meiji 27)
  • 1894 (Meiji 27) - Nara prefecture commissioned (~ 1896 / Meiji 29 years)
  • 1897 (Meiji 30) - Bank of Japan Bureau of Engineering (~ 1912 / the first year of Taisho)
  • 1900 (Meiji 33) - Director, Temporary Building Department, Bank of Japan, Osaka Branch
  • 1909 (Meiji 42) - Applied to the Taiwan Governor's office building competition and won the second prize (No A prize)
  • 1912 (first year of Taishō) - Taiwan Governor General commissioned (~ 1914 / Taisho 3 years)
  • 1913 (Taisho 2nd year) - Opened a building design supervision office
  • 1914 (Taisho 3 years) - The first meeting of the national architects' association will be held (later the Japan Architects Association )
  • 1915 (Taisho 4 years) - Doctor of Engineering
  • 1917 (Taisho 6) - elected the first president at the 7th meeting of the Japanese Architects Association
  • 1918 (7th year of Taisho) - traveling to the United States in November (~ February of the following year)
  • 1927 (Showa 2 years) - Bank of Japan Head Office Expansion Temporary Building Department Technical Director (~ Death)
  • 1937 (Showa 12) - Death, full 70 years old


  • Bank of Japan Kyoto Branch (1906 / Meiji 39) Existence · Shinkansen ( C ) → Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto Bunkyo Museum Annex
  • Bank of Japan Otaru Branch (1912 / Meiji 45) Existing ( D ) → Bank of Japan Old Otaru Branch Financial Data Center
  • Bank of Japan Okayama Branch (1922 / Taisho 11 years) Existing ( E ) → Lunes Hall
  • Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch (1936 / Showa 11 years) Existing ( F ) → Old Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch
  • Bank of Japan Matsue Branch (1937 / Showa 12) Existing ( G ) → Calacolo Studio


  • Bank of Japan head office main building (1896/189 years old) Existing · superimposed ( A )
  • Sugawara Shrine (1906 / Meiji 39) Only the main shrine exists, Kiyosato-ku, Joetsu
  • Suffrick Bank head office (1907 / Meiji 40 years) Existing → Yanai City townscape archive museum
  • Hokkaido Bank head office (1912 / Meiji 45 year) Existing ( I ) → Hokkaido Central Bus Headquarters Building
  • Taiwan Governor's Office (1919 / Taisho 8 years) Existing ( J ) → Presidential Office of the Republic of China [1]
  • Yokohama Masayuki Bank Qingdao Branch (1919 / Taisho 8 years) Existing → Bank of China Qingdao minutes line
  • Mitsui Bank Shimonoseki Branch (1919 / Taisho 8 years) Existing ( K ) → Yamaguchi Bank, annex building
  • Mitsui Bank, Hiroshima Branch (1925 / Taisho 14 years) Existing ( L ) → Hiroshima Andersen
  • The Bank of Nara Branch (1926 / Taisho 15 years) Existing ( M ) → Nanbu Bank head office
  • Okura Spiritual Culture Research Institute (1932 / Showa 7 years) Existing ( N ) → Okurayama Memorial Hall in Yokohama


" Architectural journal Vol. 52, No. 636 ", Dr. Engineering Ph.D. Nagano Uenaira kin, Architectural society , 1938 (1938)


References[edit]

  1. ^ Sharon Minichiello (January 1998). Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 235–. ISBN 978-0-8248-2080-0.

External links[edit]

  • His entry on Japanese Wikipedia [1]


birth September 28, 1867 (Lunar New Year's 3rd September 1st ) Flag of Japan Japan Echigo County Takada Shimoji Town (present: Niigata prefecture Joetsu city Takada Honmachi) Death December 14, 1937 (age 70 years old) Flag of Japan Japan Country of Citizenship Flag of Japan Japan Alma mater Teikoku University of Technology Profession architect Affiliation Nagano Building Office Building Bank of Japan main building extension Okura spiritual culture research institute