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Kyu-lwasaki-tei Gardens■Garden inaug urationlOctober 1, 2001

■Area■Hours庄‘320,708.0?rrl•V5べ` 5.9'

一叩鵬j \gaImportant Cultural Property■Free admission days

Open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m(Entry closes at 4:30 p.m.}※Opening hours may be extended during
special events, etc■ClosedYear-end holidays (December 29 to January 1}

Green Day (May 4)

Tokyo Citizen's Day (October 1}■Guided tour (Free} (Japanese}
11 a.m. and 2 p.m【Contact】z④

Kyu-lwasaki-tei Gardens OfficeTel: 03-3823-8340
1-3-45 lkenohala, Taito-ku, Tokyo〒110-0008

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decorations of the 17th centu巧Jacobean°style are seen eve rywhere, alongwiththe
British Renaissance style and Islamic
motifs. The southside of the building is a columned veranda , and columns
in the 1st floor and 2nd floor have features of Tuscan and Ionian styles
respectively. The 1st floor veranda is covered fu llywith B ritish Minton
made tiles, and there are also guest rooms papered with va l uab l e
Ja p anese l ea t her p a p er (kin-kara-kawashi). The image of country houses
in Pennsylvania, U.S., Iwasaki Hisaya's destination of study abroad wasalso reflected. This is regarded
as a rare architecture in theworld histo可of residences
withits ingenious balancewith
the annexedJapanese building.
Those days, this place wasused as a private guest housefor the once-a—y ear gathe ringof the whole Iwasaki family aswell as for parties inviting
foreign and distinguished
In details of the residence, Jacobean styleguests.
designs can be seen•

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Th is Ja p ane se build in g connec ted to thes
we stern- style buildin g had far bigger scalereis decn ewhen com p le ted w ith a floor sp ace o f 550
tsubo. At present, only a building of the big

hall which served for ceremonial purposes like the western building
has survived.It is reported that its construction was done by Okawa
Kijyuro who had en ga ged in buildin g o f many re sidence s fo r
magnates of political and business circles a s the master carpen ter.
There remainJapanese paintings in alcove and on the p aper slides,of which sketches are be lieved to have been done by Hashimoto
Gaho. Now no more existing residential space for the Iwasaki family
was divided into south and nor th section s. The south section wa s
used for the ma ster's room, children's rooms and other s, while thenor th s ec tion wa s ded ica ted fo r the quar ter s o f the s erv ice
personnel, kitchen and storage space.

Drawi ngs on the wooden
plates still remain

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Room

冗is billiard room designed byJoliahCondor is built
in some distance from the western-style building as adetached house. unlike the Jacobean-style westembui lding, it is built like mountain lodges in
Switzerland, which was ve ry rare in Japan those days. It is a wooden
bui lding in its entirety, fo llowing the trend of the Ame rican gothicswith its
log-house like walls (aze-kura-style), notched pillars and large roof
extending eaves deeply. This bui lding is inter-connectedwith the western
residence by an underground passage, and inside of the building, y ouwill
see walls paperedwithvaluable restoredJapanese leather paper.

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is covered with embroidered silk clothnToe garden in those days partially followed a style ofdaimy o gardens. Like the buildings, the western andJapanese s tyles are laid toge ther, retaining early formof a modem garden with "lawn". Reminders of thosedays are found in the garden such as stonemonuments, stone-made hand-washing basin, gardenstones, a large tree ofJapanese evergreen, etc.
This residence style of Japanese and westerncoexistence-s tyle has given significant influence toresidence construction inJapan thereafter.

Japanese leather paper on thesecond floor guest room.

Kyu-Iwasaki tei Gardens was built in 1896 as the main residence of
Iwasaki Hisaya, the 3rd president of M itsubishi and the eldest son of
Iwasaki Yataro, the fo under of the group. In those days, as many as
20 buildings were arranged in the premises of 15,000 tsubo. At
present, the site has been reduced to 1/ 3 of its original size, withonly 3 buildings, namely the western-style residence, billiard roomand Japanese residence have survived to date.
紐er the war, this place was requisitioned by the GH Q andsubsequent to its return, it became a national property to be used as
the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court, etc.
In 1961, the western residence and the billiard room weredesignated as nationally i mportant cultural property. Further, in1969, the hall of the J apanese residence and the side wall (sode-bei)to the east side of the western residence were designatedadditionally, fo llowed by the premises as a whole including the brickwall as well as the measured drawing in 1999.
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JosiahCondor was bom inLondon in 1852.In
1877, he came toJapan by the invitation from
theJapanese government. He was appointed
as the first p rofessor of architecture at theImp er ial Co lle ge of Engineer in g (presen t Arch i t e c t ure De p ar t men t, Fac u lty o fEngineer ing of Toky o University ), and hegave genuine and ful l- fl edged education of western-s ty le architect ure.
Among his students, we find most representative architect of modemJapan
like Tats uno Kingo, known fo r the designing of the Toky o St a tion, andKa tay ama Tokuma who des igned the Akasaka De tached Pa lace. Hedes igned many wes tern-s ty le build i ngs such as Rokume i-kan, Ueno
Museum and Nicolai Cathedral, and later opened the first architecturaldesign office. He was a lso a pro fessor emeritus of the Tokyo Imp e rial
University and honorary chairman and member of the Architectural InstituteofJa pan. He passed away inJap an in 1920.
Josiah Condor lovedJapan throu ghout his life, and he learnedJapanesepainting from Kawanabe Ky osai and he was married to aJapanese woman.