Background
Wajiro Kon was born on the 10 of July in 1888 in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture.
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Wajiro Kon
Wajiro Kon was a Japanese architect, designer, and educator. He is renowned as the father of "modernology", a branch of sociology which studied the changes in cityscape and people which emerged as a consequence of Tokyo becoming a modern metropolis in the early Showa Era.
Education
Wajiro Kon was graduated from Tokyo Fine Arts School. Kon studied graphic design at Tokyo University of the Arts, and worked with artists and ethnographers. In the 1920s he studied rural Japan with the ethnographer Kunio Yanagita.
Career
Wajiro Kon was an assistant professor of Waseda University in 1915. The in 1920 he became professor of same and concomitantly instructor at Peeress’ College. Moreover he was a professor of Waseda University and chief of Research Institution of Domestic Science.
Achievements
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Wajiro Kon specialized in rural architecture and worked for improvement of the people's standard of living.
Membership
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Japan Architectural Academy , Japan
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Committee of New Japan Architects' Association
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Died
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Nationality
Japanese