Taki Gakuen

Taki Gakuen

Taki Gakuen (滝学園), a school in Higashinocho Komeno, Konan City, Aichi Prefecture, has a main building of 1926 and an auditorium of 1933 registered as Registered Tangible Cultural Properties on August 28, 2001, and a library, also of 1933, registered on June 28, 2017 (Agency for Cultural Affairs). All three are owned by the Taki Gakuen school corporation.

According to the Agency, the school was founded by Taki Shinshiro, a wealthy Nagoya merchant.

The Three Buildings

The main building is a long two-storey concrete school with short wings at each end; its pedimented central entrance and the clock tower on its roof have become a local landmark. It is said to have been designed by Murase Kuninosuke (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The auditorium, on the east side of the square before the main building, is almost plain but given a symbolic form by three framed doorways and a pediment-like gable, and the library adjoining it wraps a prewar library in a post-war modernist upper floor (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Each building is described on its own page.

Visiting

The buildings are on school grounds. No official information on public access was found.