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The Influence of Target Personsʼ Status and Gender on the Choice of Manipulation Strategies ―An Experimental Research on Female Undergraduatesʼ Manipulation―
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Ainu Clothing in Hokkaido : Focusing on the Hoods, Headbands and Gaiters of the Showa Period
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Design, Floor Planning, and Assembly Hall Roof Truss of the Third Provisional Diet Building: A Comparison of the Second Provisional Diet Building and the Third Provisional Diet Building
Get PDFThe Second Provisional Diet Building was destroyed by fire in September, 1925 and an alternative had to be built by the 51st Imperial Diet, scheduled to be held in the same year. The Third Provisional Diet Building was completed within 82 days. The building is an important example in Japanese architectural history of how quickly buildings could be erected at the end of the Taisho period. The results obtained from the comparison between the Second and the Third Diet Buildings are as follows.
The Third Provisional Diet Building basically reused the remains of the foundation of the Second Provisional Diet Building which had escaped fire damage, so the location of the central front door hall, the oblong large hallway and the assembly hall were identical. Also the location of the Emperor’s temporary space on the 2nd floor, the direction of the meeting seats facing the chairman’s seat, and the terraced arrangements of meeting seats were all unchanged.
However, the heights of the façade and the unevenness of the outward appearance in the vertical and horizontal direction in the Third were less than they had been in the Second. The simplified floor planning and design were due to the limited construction period.
The Second Diet Building was dim because the light entered through the windows in the gable wall and side wall under the roof, but the brightness of the Third Diet Building was improved by installing a large skylight in the roof.
While the First and the Second Diet Buildings had adopted a “German roof truss” which had been introduced to Japan in Meiji Era by German architects and Japanese architects who had studied in Germany, the Third adopted a king post truss. This suggests that “German roof trusses” was obsolete in the Taisho period.
The Third Diet building was characterized by art deco style intermingled with modernism, while the Second’s design was based on a wooden frame work model.
Since the construction was government-operated, the style must have influenced the architecture of the Taisho era and after. Architecture of the period, such as the Third Provisional Diet Building, remains attractive.departmental bulletin pape
