A Study on Location and Spatial Composition of Public Bath “Sentoh” in Nerima, Tokyo

Abstract

博覧会は一つの都市的虚構ということができ,博覧会の開 設定されていたこと等が明らかになった The author studied the spatial design concepts of three National Exhibitions which were held in the early Meiji Era(1877,1881,1890), at Ueno Park in Tokyo. The following facts were revealed. 1)Meiji-Goverment aimed to enlighten people to shift their system of perception for the World, so they designed the exhibition-sites (especially for the layout patterns of pavillions or garden desisrn) in Western symmetrical style. 2)They also recognized the exhibition(exposition) as "festival", so they planned to build the market places in front and outside of the entrance-gates inJapanese traditional style. 3)The exhibition-sites were designed basically m Western style, but unconsciously, the traditional Japanese aspects of space-design appeared on the sites.