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Mori Kazuo

もり かずお

Mori Kazuo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1890-01-01 （Kobe）
Died
1968-01-01 age 78
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
landscape architect, government official, lecturer
Active Years
1914-1968
Affiliations
Meiji Jingu Construction Bureau, Forestry and Gardens Section, Imperial Household Ministry (Works Division, Gardens Section), Home Ministry, Hyogo Regional Urban Planning Committee, Osaka Prefecture (Urban Planning Division / Parks Committee), Mie Higher School of Agriculture and Forestry (lecturer), Osaka City (Parks Division / Green Space Division), Osaka Prefecture University (lecturer)

Education

Fourth High School (prewar)
Year of Graduation: 1914
Country: Japan
Graduated from a prewar Fourth High School
Tokyo Imperial University, Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture / Department of Agriculture
Country: Japan
Matriculated; exact graduation year not specified in sources

Awards & Nominations

Style & Themes

Recurring Motifs
Japanese garden design techniquesurban park planninggreen space conservation and landscape design

Legacy

A landscape architect and government horticultural engineer who played a key role in urban park and national park planning mainly in the Kinki region. He contributed to implementation plans such as Hattori Ryokuchi and to park development in Osaka City, serving in important municipal and prefectural planning posts before and after World War II.

Trivia

  • Born in Kobe.
  • Worked at the Meiji Jingu Construction Bureau and the Imperial Household Ministry on garden renovations.
  • Involved in planning projects such as the Rokko mountain development and Hattori Ryokuchi.