MATSUMURO Shigemitsu

松室重光 (1873 – 1937)

Japanese architect who designed buildings around Kyôto | 1873 born in Kyôto | 1894 enters the architecture department of “Tôkyô Imperial University” (today “University of Tôkyô”) | 1898 takes an engineer post at the “Kyôto Prefectural Government” | 1904 completes to built the main hall of Kyôto Prefectural Government in Neo-Renaissance style | 1905 takes an engineer post at “Kyûshû Railway Corporation” | 1908 engineer at “Japan’s Guandong Governor-General Office” | 1923 works at “Ôsaka Electric Exhibition” | 1927 works for KATAOKA Yasushi architecture office | 1930 opens his own office | 1937 died