Rokumeikan

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Japan, 〒100-0011 Tōkyō-to, Chiyoda-ku, Uchisaiwaichō, 1 Chome−1−７ ＮＢＦ日比谷ビル

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N35° 40' 18.4944" E139° 45' 28.0512"   (35.671804, 139.757792) Start navigation »

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The Rokumeikan (鹿鳴館, "Deer-cry Hall") was a large two-story building in Tokyo, completed in 1883, which was to become a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. Commissioned for the housing of foreign guests by the Foreign Minister Inoue Kaoru, it was designed by Josiah Conder, a prominent Western architect working in Japan.
Although the Rokumeikan's heyday was brief, it became famous for its parties and balls, which introduced many high-ranking Japanese to Western manners for the first time, and it is still a fixture in the cultural memory of Japan. It was, however, largely used for the accommodation of guests of the government, and for meetings between Japanese who had already lived abroad, and its image as a centre of dissipation is largely fictional.

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