Mikishi Abe
Mikishi Abe was a Japanese architect and civil engineer, known for his PhD thesis on reinforced concrete frames, and for several concrete buildings. Abe was responsible for designing the first elevated railway using reinforced concrete. He contributed to many architectural and engineering works of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.
Mikishi Abe
Kakidai · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Name
- Mikishi Abe
- Died
- 20 February 1965
- Birthplace
- Iwate Prefecture Japan
- Occupation
- Architect, civil engineer
- Education
- University of Illinois Sapporo Agricultural College
- Born
- 1883 · Ichinoseki.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Honours
- Order of the Sacred Treasure and 2nd Class
- Languages
- Japanese
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Mikishi Abe was a Japanese architect and civil engineer, known for his PhD thesis on reinforced concrete frames, and for several concrete buildings. Abe was responsible for designing the first elevated railway using reinforced concrete. He contributed to many architectural and engineering works of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Mikishi Abe. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q6849900 · wikipedia · Mikishi Abe
In this article
Biography
Biography
Shortly after World War Two, he was the second president of the War Reconstruction Agency (currently the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) and the Secretary-General of the Construction Agency (Deputy Secretary of Construction) after the war. On March 4, 1947, he was appointed as a member of the Imperial House of Representatives, and remained in office until the abolition of the House of Peers on May 2, the same year. The student of A.N Talbot of United States. He is credited of spreading the Talbot's message of pragmatism in Japan.
Mikishi Abe studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Yokohama National University. Positions recorded include member of the House of Peers. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd Class.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mikishi Abe • Died — 20 February 1965 • Birthplace — Iwate Prefecture Japan • Occupation — Architect, civil engineer • Education — University of Illinois Sapporo Agricultural College • Practice — Abe Offices • Significant Buildings — Hankyu Department Store Hibiya Movie Theatre Yuraku-za (Theatre) Kobe Hankyu Building Naigai Building • Significant Projects — Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group overhead railways
Buildings
Buildings
• Seiko Main Office • Hibiya Movie Theater, Yurakucho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 1934 • Meiji Seika Tobata Factory, Tobataku, KitaKyushu, 1936 • Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium • Kobe Hankyu Building • Yuraku-za Theatre
Books
• Analysis and Tests of Rigidly Connected Reinforced Concrete Frames.
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Dr. MIKISHI ABE and Early Days of Elevated Railway Viaducts in Japan, HISTORICAL STUDIES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2001
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2001
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6849900: Mikishi Abe
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Mikishi Abe”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
scholarly publication
Dr. MIKISHI ABE and Early Days of Elevated Railway Viaducts in Japan, HISTORICAL STUDIES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2001Crossref registry
Institutional witnessInstitutional database
Wikidata, structured authority record Q6849900: Mikishi AbeWikimedia Foundation
Institutional witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Design
11,558 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Mikhail Pavlovich MalakhovDesigner
- Mikhail PosokhinDesigner
- Mikhail PreobrazhenskyDesigner
- Mikhail ZemtsovDesigner
- Mikko HeikkinenDesigner
- Miklós HoferDesigner
- Miklós YblDesigner
- Milada Petříková-PavlíkováDesigner
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Mikishi Abe?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.