Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo is a hotel in Tokyo. It was built in the late 1880s at the request of the Japanese aristocracy to increase Western visitors to Japan. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.[1] The hotel site is located just south of the Imperial Palace grounds, next to the previous location of the Palace moat.[1]
The modern hotel overlooks the Palace, the 40-acre (16 ha) western-style Hibiya Park, and the Ginza neighborhood.[1] Three buildings have stood on the hotel site, each of which embodied the finest western design of its era.[1] The hotel eventually slipped into decay as time took its toll. In a controversial decision, it was decided to demolish the old hotel and replace it with a high-rise structure, to maximize the use of land.[1]
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The original Imperial Hotel, designed by Yuzuru Watanabe (1890)
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Peacock Chair, designed for the hotel
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Imperial Hotel Tokyo plans design by Wright
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Final perspective drawing by Wright. Over 700 drawings were created for this project.
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Imperial Hotel Sign, 1922, demolished 1967, Tokyo, Japan, photo by Anonymous, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
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The hotel (left) shortly after the 1923 earthquake (on the right burning is the Kangyō Bank)
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Shortly after the earthquake (the Imperial is seen in the top right)
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The entrance courtyard of Wright's Imperial Hotel, as recreated near Nagoya in the Meiji-Mura Museum
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Entrance Hall, which was reconstructed in the Meiji Mura Museum
References
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- Imperial Hotel, Ltd. Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (株式会社帝国ホテル; Kabushiki Gaisha Teikoku Hoteru).
- Main Entrance Hall and Lobby of Imperial Hotel in the Museum Meiji-Mura Archived 2009-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Old Tokyo - Imperial Hotel (Wright)
- Legacy of oya stone used in the Imperial Hotel
