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Kijima, Yasufumi
(b Haeju, Korea, 9 May 1937). Japanese architect. He graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1962 and received his PhD there in 1982. After working briefly for Kenzo Tange, he established his own office in Tokyo, YAS & Urbanists, in 1970. After 1971 he taught at Kumamoto University, where he became a professor in the Department of Architecture. Although his design output was small, Kijima established a reputation as a Post-modernist who combined elements from Western architecture with traditional Japanese styles. His eclecticism is wide-ranging. His best-known works are the Kamimuta Matsuo Shrine (1975) in Kumamoto, in which a barrel-vaulted narthex evoking classical Western architecture was added to an existing Shinto building, and the Kyusendo Forestry Museum (‘Cue Saint Domes’, 1984) in Kuma, with multiple domes that suggest Byzantine architecture.
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