ブックタイトル同志社の文化財建築物（英語版）

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同志社の文化財建築物（英語版）

彰栄館Shoeikan? Completed on September 15, 1884? Designated as a National Important Cultural Propertyon May 21, 1979A two-story, brick, pantile-roofed building, with a rooftoptower on the east side and an iron-sheet-roofed entranceporch on the south sideTotal Building Area: 276.2m 2Designed by: D.C. GreeneConstructed by: Kikutaro OtakiIn the Taisho eraShoeikan is the second oldest brick building in existence in Kyoto City, constructed with a$7,500 donation from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. D.C.Greene, the first missionary of the American Board to Japan, became an educator and a trustee atDoshisha and also dedicated himself to the construction of the campus buildings. Shoeikan is aWestern-style building with American bond brickwork on the outside, while the building’s interior,comprising partition walls and a roof truss, is Japanese in style.The stone marker of Shoeikan is placed on the south side entrance. The rooftop tower serves asboth a bell tower and a clock tower. Until recently a junior high school student, who assumed therole of bell toller (shisho-sei), rang the bell to mark the beginning of the morning service every day:a custom dating from the Meiji period. The clocks on the four sides of the tower were mounted in1887. In summer 2010, when Doshisha Junior High School moved to the Iwakura Campus, an exactreplica of the bell was made and mounted on the Grace Chapel on the Iwakura Campus, preservingthe tradition of the bell ringing by shisho-sei.? 1 ?