Ikedamachi Yokangai

Architecture of voris

Original Text

It's not as large as a Western-style building, but it's lined up with some Western-style buildings that Vories will make. It's very close to Yawata Elementary School, so it's a good idea to see it at the same time. Since people still live, they cannot enter inside.

District which was the base of modernization promotion of Omihachiman

Original Text

It is a neighborhood where the Western building and brick walls of the Taisho era designed by Vories still exist in Ikeda-cho in the city. A three-story water house residence where he came to Japan as a lecturer at Waseda University and resonated with Vories' way of life and lived in this area, the residence of Etsuzo Yoshida, one of the founders of Omi Brothers, and two-family houses for employees of Omi Mission. You can feel the traces of Western culture that coexist with the traditional Omi merchant town in the double house. The city is dotted with voliz-designed buildings, but this ...