著者

泉田 英雄

出版者

日本建築学会

雑誌

日本建築学会計画系論文集 (ISSN:13404210)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.81, no.720, pp.477-487, 2016

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Edmund Morel, the fist chief engineer in railway division of the Meiji Japan, proposed in April 1870 the foundation of the ministry of public works, which consisted of execution, accountants and education sections. The education section's main objective was to train young Japanese under its institute by foreign teachers. The students would learn both theory and practice at its college after they acquired basic knowledge at its school. Although the Meiji government agreed to found the ministry in November 1870, the education section was neglected. Yozo Yamao who trained as engineer at Glasgow, entered the service of engineering section at the Meiji government in 1870, and insisted on the significance of engineering education and survey. When the ministry was officially organized in September 1871, he became a vice minister of the public works as well as chief of both education and survey sections, and assured that he could find and hire foreign teaching staff and build the school buildings before opening of the institute in August 1872. Colin Alexander McVean, a Scottish civil engineer, appointed as a chief surveyor to the survey section, assisted Yamao to build the school facilities and hire foreign staff.