ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Russo-Japanese War, Meiji Restoration, Triple Intervention
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Neo-baroque style : it is constructed in baroque style. Architecture became an essential tool of state for convincing the flood of foreign visitors entering japan of its reincarnation as urban and urbane civilization - Japan was worried, because it saw china was unprepared for fighting against the western world. And japan very quickly realized that there methods of fighting would not be enough to save them from conquest. So their goal was to one save themselves from a conquest of another nation and two was two show the world that they are a modern nation. The new palace was surrounded by the an aura of national euphora at the attainment of the objectives of the meiji restoration - coaldrake, building the. The asaka palace was constructed in neo-baroque style. It was meant to be home of the crown prince but now a days is used as a guest house for famous foreign visitors and dignitories.
