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Josiah Conder (1852-1920) was one of the most internationally influential British architects of his time. This book provides the first scholarly biography of Conder, detailing his remarkable family background, his achievements as an architect and his unparalleled immersion into Japanese life. It also includes a full gazetteer of Conder's 120 built and unbuilt projects in Japan, as well as reproductions of his watercolours and other drawings.
Conder first arrived in Japan in 1876 to take up the position of Professor of Architecture at the Imperial Institute of Engineering in Tokyo. He subsequently transformed architectural practice in Japan and designed many important buildings there, including the most famous 19th-century Japanese building, the Rokumeikan (1883), which gave its name to an era and is still a fixture in the cultural memory of Japan. His work also had a significant impact in Britain through his books on Japan: Conder's work on Japan's gardens set off a Japanese garden boom in Britain and his book about Kawanabe Kyōsai probably made Kyōsai the most famous Japanese artist in Britain at the time.
Neil Jackson is an architect, architectural historian and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He has published widely on 19th- and 20th-century British, American and Japanese architecture and his previous books include Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (Lund Humphries 2019). Robert Morton is a professor in the Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University, Tokyo. He is a historian and author, who has lived in Japan for almost 30 years. His previous books include A.B. Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State and A Life of Sir Harry Parkes.