TSUMAKI Yorinaka

妻木頼黄 (1859 – 1916)

Japanese architect and a bureaucrat with immense power as the head of the Ministry of Finance’s repair department | 1859 born in Edo (today “Tôkyô”) | 1876 sells his property and goes to the USA | 1878 was advised to return to Japan, studies architecture under Josiah CONDER at “Kogakubu University” (later “University of Tôkyô”) | 1882 one year before graduation he leaves school to graduate at Cornell University, USA | 1894 builds a temporary parliament building in Hiroshima, where the Imperial Headquarters was located, involved in the restoration of the Great Buddha Hall of Todai-ji temple | 1901 tours Europe and the USA, receives doctorate in engineering | 1905 cabinet asks him to build the House of Representatives, but TATSUNO Kingô and others demand an open competition | 1916 died