TARO AMANO

The first postwar Japanese architect to study with Wright at Taliesin, he became a leading proponent of organic design.

ARATA ENDO

Wright's righthand man on the Imperial Hotel, as well as full collaborator on the Jiyu Gakuen School and Yamamura House.

RAKU ENDO

Son of Arata Endo and the last Japanese apprentice to study with Wright.

MOTOKO AND YOSHIKAZU HANI

The founders of the Jiyu Gakuen School of the Free Spirit, designed by Wright and Arata Endo.

AISAKU HAYASHI

The Imperial Hotel manager who hired Wright to design the new building in 1916 and became a lifelong friend.

MAKOTO MINAMI

A structural engineer, he worked on the Imperial Hotel and partnered with Arata Endo to complete the Yamamura House and other Wright-inspired designs.

TAKEHIKO OKAMI

Dispatched by Arata Endo to assist Wright in 1929, he continued to promulgate organic design after his return.

ANTONIN AND NOÉMI RAYMOND

After working with Wright at Taliesin in 1916, they accompanied him to Tokyo to work on the Imperial Hotel in 1919. Antonin went on to lead Japan’s modernist movement.


YOSHIYA TANOUE

One of the young apprentices on the Imperial Hotel, he went to Hokkaido and designed many Wright-inspired buildings.

KAMEKI AND NOBU TSUCHIURA

The couple followed Wright to California and worked with him for several years before returning to pioneer a new style of housing.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

America's — some say the world's — greatest 20th c. architect.