Yokohama District Court (1890)

The building was designed by Japanese architect Tatsuno Kingo (1854-1919) and completed in 1890 (Meiji 23). The building was designed by Japanese architect Tatsuno Kingo (1854-1919) and completed in 1890 (Meiji 23). It was located on Kitanakadori 5-chome, a location now used for other government buildings. The building was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 (Taisho 12), after which the district court moved to its current location. He was born in what is now the prefecture of Saga, the son of a samurai of the Karatsu Clan. He studied engineering in Tokyo under Josiah Condor (1852mi1920), a British architect who came to Japan in 1877. After he graduated in 1879, he went to London and studied with William Burges (1827mi 1881). One year later he became a professor, and later dean, of the School of Engineering at Tokyo Imperial University. Tatsuno was instrumental in helping to introduce Western architecture to Japan. The government of the foreign settlement, formerly in the hands of a mixed municipality, is now administered by the Prefect of Kanagawa. Albumen photograph sourced by Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1923), 1890s, for "Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese", Shogun Edition edited by Captain F Brinkley. Published in 1897 by J B Millet Company, Boston Massachusetts, USA.