Journal of East-Asian Urban History

  • Volume 1
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  • Pages.135-154
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  • 2019
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  • 2713-9484(eISSN)
East-Asian Society for Urban History (동아시아도시사학회)
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Studies of Building layout and ground use in the early days of Japan Women's College: Campus design for private colleges in a modernizing Japan

  • Received : 2019.09.30
  • Accepted : 2019.12.08
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

This paper reveals the influence of urban and social contexts on the early building layout of Japan Women's College (JWC), one of the first women's colleges in Japan. According to the unpublished plans, the main building and other major structures, at the first stage, formed a three-sided quadrangle with site-wide organization, which was similar to contemporary National colleges. This impressive design, however, disappeared in the final plan. Although the school is the largest in student number and in campus ground size compared to other contemporary private colleges at its establishment, the subdivided land acquired in the private land market forced JWC to give up the organic composition of buildings. Under the framework of donation-based finance, it needed to start construction quickly for further support from the public, which prevented the school from acquiring enough time to adjust land ownership. These constitute the major differences with national schools. The founder's emphasis on the physical exercises, which reflected the public interest in physical strength of mothers in the time of wars, gave preference to securing sufficient open space over the order of buildings.

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Acknowledgement

This article was supplemented with many additions from Suzuki, M. (2013). A study of the historical buildings at Japan Women's University, published in the bulletin of the Research Institute of the Japan Women's University. It was one of the products of the digitizing project of archival materials stored in the Naruse Memorial Hall, financially supported by the Institute.

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