architecture

Japan

Japanese culture

modernity

Tokyo

train

, in Japan, was marked by the introduction of trains and streetcars and factories, but that art of the people known as architecture has been quite destroyed.

Kafu noticed this at the beginning of the century, when he wrote that ‘. . . there have been trains and streetcars and factories, but that art of the people known as architecture has been quite destroyed.’ In its place was the modern building.

is evidence that the Japanese are wholly lacking in the ability to build a city.

Nagai Kafu, wrote that ‘. . . it would seem that we Japanese are wholly lacking in the ability to build a city.’

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Kafu Nagai