The Meiji architectural style that I particularly like are the American New England inspired clapboard houses, usually two story, with their American influence obvious, but with small touches, such as the decorative finishing, or the eaves construction, showing up the Japanese craftsmen who constructed them. A fine example of this is the building in Glover Garden, Nagasaki, the main building of the Tozan Gakuin, or Steele Memorial Academy, built in 1887. It sits close to the original Glover House, a single story timber house built for a Scotsman, Thomas Glover, who, amongst other very notable achievements, started the shipyard that was to become the Mitsubishi shipyard, the real target for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
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