Hardcover. 4to. Published by Verlag Ernst Wasmuth / E. Weyhe, Tübingen, Germany, 1952. 208 pgs. Includes 316 black and white illustration. Text in German. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Tetsuro Yoshida (1894-1956) was an architect at the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and designed Japan's major post and telegraph offices. How did a modern Japanese architect, after a period of exploration in Europe and the US from 1931 to 1932, come to write a book on the traditional Japanese house, only to publish it (only) in Germany ? Yoshida thus found himself competing with Bruno Taut, who emigrated to Japan in 1933 and with whom he was a close friend.
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