Japanese Cultural Transition: Meiji Architecture and the Effect of Cross-cultural Exchange with the West

Christine M. Visita
2009 Forum Journal of History  
Here, now, comes the greatest revolutionary epoch! These are the two great events, the restoration of the Imperial power from the lands of the last Shogun after the end of several wars, followed by the opening of our communication and the forming of our treaties with the western world!" -Funakoshi Kinya, Imperial College of Engineering graduation thesis, 1883 1
doi:10.15368/forum.2009v1n1.7 fatcat:5dxwp4x5qfdmtdprmjpm27zi2u