Dōjunkai (shinjitai: 同潤会, kyūjitai: 同潤會) was a corporation set up a year after the 1923 Kantō earthquake to provide reinforced concrete (and thus earthquake- and fire-resistant) collective housing in the Tokyo area. Shinjitai (in Shinjitai ja [[wikt新字体 新字体]] in Kyūjitai: ja [[wikt新字體 新字體]] meaning "new character form" are the forms of Kyūjitai (in Shinjitai: ja 旧字体 in Kyūjitai 舊字體 meaning "old character form" is the traditional form of the Japanese Kanji used before The struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 1158 on the morning of September 1, 1923. Reinforced concrete is Concrete in which reinforcement bars (" Rebars quot or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Its formal name was Zaidan-hōjin Dōjunkai (財団法人同潤会), i. e. the Dōjunkai corporation. The suffix kai means organization, and dōjun was a term coined to suggest the spread of the nutritious benefit of the water of river and sea. [1] It was overseen by the Home Ministry. The was a former Cabinet -level ministry established under the Meiji Constitution that managed the internal affairs of Empire of Japan from 1873-1947
From 1926 to 1930, Dōjunkai created fifteen apartment complexes (apāto or apātomento), two in Yokohama and the rest in Tokyo. is the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, located in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshū and is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area Among the latter, the best known is Dōjunkai Aoyama Apartments (built 1926–7), which long stood on the avenue of Omotesandō toward its Harajuku Station end. is an avenue subway station and neighborhood in the Minato and Shibuya wards in Tokyo stretching from Harajuku station the foot of the is a railway station on the Yamanote Line of East Japan Railway Company (JR East located in Shibuya Tokyo, Japan adjacent to Yoyogi Park Toward the end of what was by Tokyo standards a long life, the ivy-covered building was increasingly used for ateliers and small independent shops. Hedera (English name ivy, plural ivies) is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground-creeping Evergreen woody plants in the family It was destroyed for the 2005 construction by Mori Building of "Omotesando Hills", a conventional shopping mall. is considered to be Japan 's most powerful and influential building tycoon Omotesando Hills (表参道ヒルズ Omotesandō hiruzu) was built in 2005 in a series of Tokyo urban developments by Mori Building. A shopping mall or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings that contain Retail units with interconnecting Walkways enabling visitors Dōjunkai built one last complex in Tokyo, Dōjunkai Edogawa apāto, between 1932 and 1934.
Dōjunkai was wound up in 1941.
Remarkably, all the apartment complexes survived wartime bombing.
After the war, the government sold the land of most of the complexes to real estate companies, notably Mori Building. Thereafter, the combination of desire for greater profits, lack of advance publicity, and government uninterest in this genre of architecture, in addition to inadequate maintenance and the lack of amenities (notably individual bathing facilities) now taken for granted, have led to the destruction of most of the complexes in the name of "site development".
List of Dōjunkai Apartments
| Apartments | Japanese name | Completed | Location (present-day "wards") |
Demolished (and replaced[2] by) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nakanogō Apartments | 中之郷アパートメント | 1926 | Sumida, Tokyo | 1990 (Setoru Nakanogō) |
| Aoyama Apartments | 青山アパートメント | 1926–7 | Shibuya, Tokyo | 2003 (Omotesando Hills) |
| Yanagishima Apartments | 柳島アパートメント | 1926–7 | Sumida, Tokyo | 1995 (Primēru Yanagishima) |
| Daikan-yama Apartments | 代官山アパートメント | 1927 | Shibuya, Tokyo | 1996 (Daikan-yama Address) |
| Sumitoshi Apartments (Sarueura-chō Kyōdō Jūtaku) |
住利アパートメント (猿江裏町共同住宅) |
1927–30 | Kōtō, Tokyo | 1994 (Twin Tower Sumitoshi) |
| Kiyosumidōri Apartments (Higashidaiku-chō Apartments) |
清砂通アパートメント (東大工町アパートメント) |
1927–9 | Kōtō, Tokyo | 2002 |
| Yamashita-chō Apartments | 山下町アパートメント | 1927 | Naka, Yokohama | 1989 (Reiton House) |
| Hiranuma-chō Apartments | 平沼町アパートメント | 1927 | Nishi, Yokohama | 1984 (Monteberte Yokohama) |
| Minowa Apartments | 三ノ輪アパートメント | 1928 | Arakawa, Tokyo | Standing |
| Mita Apartments | 三田アパートメント | 1928 | Minato, Tokyo | 1988 (Shanpōru Mita) |
| Uguisudani Apartments | 鶯谷アパートメント | 1929 | Arakawa, Tokyo | 1999 (Rīdensu Tower) |
| Uenoshita Apartments | 上野下アパートメント | 1929 | Taitō, Tokyo | Standing |
| Toranomon Apartments | 虎ノ門アパートメント | 1929 | Chiyoda, Tokyo | 2000 (Daidō Seimei Kasumigaseki Biru) |
| Ōtsuka Joshi Apartments | 大塚女子アパートメント | 1930 | Bunkyō, Tokyo | 2003 |
| Sumitoshi Apartments (Higashi-chō Apartments) |
住利アパートメント (東町アパートメント) |
1930 | Kōtō, Tokyo | 1994 (Twin Tower Sumitoshi) |
| Edogawa Apartments | 江戸川アパートメント | 1934 | Shinjuku, Tokyo | 2003 |
Notes
- ^ For a full explanation of the term dōjun, see Seizō Uchida, "Apātomento hausu o wagakuni ni mochikonda Dōjunkai", p. The are 23 municipalities that together make up the core and the most populous part of Tokyo, Japan. is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It calls itself Sumida City in English is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 it had an estimated Population of 208371 and a density of 13540 persons Omotesando Hills (表参道ヒルズ Omotesandō hiruzu) was built in 2005 in a series of Tokyo urban developments by Mori Building. is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It calls itself Sumida City in English is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 it had an estimated Population of 208371 and a density of 13540 persons is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 the ward has an estimated Population of 442271 and a density of 11070 persons is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 the ward has an estimated Population of 442271 and a density of 11070 persons is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The ward takes its name from the river the Arakawa. is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of March 1 2008, it had an official Population of 217335 and a is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The ward takes its name from the river the Arakawa. is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English it calls itself Chiyoda City is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area Bunkyō is a residential and educational center is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 the ward has an estimated Population of 442271 and a density of 11070 persons is one of the 23 Special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center housing the busiest train station in the world ( Shinjuku Station 17, within Hashimoto et al. , Kieteyuku Dōjunkai Apātomento.
- ^ Replacements from Hashimoto et al. , Kieteyuku Dōjunkai Apātomento, p. 152. This gives the names in Japanese script only. Where the names are obviously in English or pseudo-English, English names have been provided; otherwise, they have been rendered in Hepburn romanization.
Links and further reading
- Design of Doujunkai. (Japanese title 甦る都市の生活と記憶 同潤会アパートメント写真集). Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryō Kenkyūsha, 2000. ISBN 978-4874606438 A book of new photographs of the buildings, with (minimal) text in both Japanese and English.
- (Japanese) "Dōjunkai apāto" in Japanese-language Wikipedia
- (Japanese) Hashimoto Fumitaka, et al. Kieyuku Dōjunkai apātomento (消えゆく同潤会アパートメント, The disappearing Dōjunkai apartments). Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2003. ISBN 4-309-72734-4. Informative book about all the buildings but concentrating on Edogawa Apartments (where Hashimoto lived), with plenty of plans, historic photographs, and new photographs taken by Youki Kanehira.
- Kanehira Youki. Photographs of Dōjunkai Aoyama apāto.
- (Japanese) Dōjunkai Aoyama apāto chronology.
- (Japanese) Miscellany about Dōjunkai Aoyama apāto.
- (Japanese) Ueda Makoto. Perhaps you mean one or other of Makoto Ueda (writer on Japanese poetry Makoto Ueda (writer on collective housing Shūgō jūtaku monogatari (集合住宅物語, The story of collective housing). Tokyo: Misuzu, 2004. ISBN 4-622-07086-3. This historical survey of collective housing in Japan (whose content was previously published within Tokyojin) has sections devoted to the Aoyama, Kiyosumidōri, Uguisudani and Ōtsuka Joshi Apartments, with new photographs by Hiroh Kikai and some archival photographs. is a Japanese-language monthly magazine about the history and culture of Tokyo, and culture and leisure in the city is a Japanese photographer best known for his monochrome
- Wijers-Hasegawa, Yumi. "Dwellers bought off; ball to fall on Aoyama flats". Japan Times, 19 April 2002. Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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