ON THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCE FOR MINISTERIAL OFFICIALS DURING MID-MEIJI PERIOD BY THE “REGISTER OF MINISTRY-OWNED ASSETS”: The surrounding facts of the official residence buildings during mid-Meiji period (Part 1)

It was "Register of ministry-owned assets" that it was made in 1891. It is this report that it tried for elucidation of the perspective of official residences for ministerial officials during the mid-Meiji Period through the "Register of ministry-owned assets" with the only thing along perspective of enormous official residences supply. The compiled document has gap in precision between each ministries, and I cannot assert completely cover all the perspective of official residences for ministerial officials during the mid-Meiji Period, but thinks that it has important value to have clarified the jurisdiction range of each ministry. From "Register of ministry-owned assets", The official residences supply was not performed integrally as of the mid-Meiji Period and understood that mainly entrusted to the discretion of each ministry. At the official residences for senior government officials, around minister official residences the positive introduction of "residences with Japanese and European houses adjacent to each other" which made the mainstream of the residence of the upper class after the Meiji era was seen. The official residences of the general government official followed most of the usual models and official residences for ministerial officials during the mid-Meiji Period had a big gap in official residences for senior government officials and the official dwelling of the general government official.