A STUDY ON THE HISTORICAL DETAILS OF YOZO YAMAO'S APPOINTMENT AS PRESIDENT OF THE ARCHITECTURAL BUREAU

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  • 山尾庸三が臨時建築局総裁に就任した経緯に関する研究

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In September 1887, Kaoru Inoue resigned as President of the Architectural Bureau. Yozo Yamao assumed the office of President in February 1888 after a short period in which the post was vacant. In October 1881, Yamao retired from office as the Minister of Public Works and began working as a legislation bureaucrat; from December 1885, he served as Director General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau. Previous research has shown that when Inoue resigned from the post of President, Hirobumi Ito and Inoue considered Yajiro Shinagawa (then an imperial court councilor) for the post of President, and that in January 1888, Ito was thinking of appointing Yamao as Resident Envoy to the United States. This article draws on a large number of historical materials to explicate the historical details of how these personnel proposals emerged, and then disappeared, as Yamao was appointed to the post of President of the Architectural Bureau. The results reveal a number of new details: Yamao's appointment as Resident Envoy to the United States was all but decided upon by August 1887 at the latest; and the proposal to have Shinagawa serve as President was still on the table just before Yamao was appointed to the post. However, many of the important details brought to light are fragmentary in nature, and the historical details of Yamao's appointment as President presented in the study involve a degree of conjecture.

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