THE PLANNING PROCESS AND KEIJIRO YAMASHITA’S ROLE IN THE NARA PRISON AS BRICKWORK

This paper is consisted of following three sections. First, it examines the planning process of Nara Prison and the career of Keijiro Yamashita, focusing on the transition to brick construction and the relocation to a new site. Second, it analyzes Yamashita’s ideas and responses by comparing the “original draft” and the “revised draft” for the Shinden site. Third, it explores Yamashita’s dual roles —as an engineer in the Ministry of Justice and as a supervisor in Nara Prefecture— through an analysis of the “renewed plan” for the new site at Hannya-ji.