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...Japanese daimyo, or feudal lord, named Yorishige Matsudaira rode 350 miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken...
Childhood Memories. In his 17 years in office, Kaneko has turned the out-of-the-way, largely agricultural prefecture of Kagawa into an architectural showplace and art center, and he has become ,known far and wide as the "design chiji [governor]." For the Takamatsu library, he brought in Yoshinobu Ashihara, architect for Japan's pavilion at Expo 67. Professor Junzo Yoshimura, original architect of Emperor Hirohito's new palace in Tokyo, managed the restoration of the exquisite Moon-Scooping Pavilion, built by Matsudaira...
...hall's entrance is graced by a hand some piece of sculpture by Masayuki Nagare, Japan's foremost sculptor - and a Takamatsu resident...
Kaneko is proudest that he snared Japan's leading architect, Kenzo Tange, 53, to design his Kagawa prefectural headquarters, which is considered even finer than Tange's Tokyo city hall, and Takamatsu's new gymnasium (see color). For the latter. Architect Tange called on his childhood memories of Japan's traditional, majestic wooden barges ("Takamatsu, after all, is a city by the sea"). Building it, with its cable-suspended roof and abutment-supported "bow" and "stern," proved a contractor's nightmare. Whenever the gripes seemed insurmountable, Kaneko cheerfully exhorted the workmen to "show us your...
...Europe for an art show and the beginning of Paris-Tokyo service by Air France, Japan's Prince Takamatsu took along some simple requests from the folks back home. On the wanted list: for Emperor Hirohito, an old pro at marine biology, scientific data on Hydrozoa and the latest French research on oysters; for Crown Prince Akihito, three kinds of tropical fish; for Prince Mikasa, the Emperor's youngest brother and a history prof at Tokyo Women's Christian College, a museum catalogue on archaeology...