DOROTHY BRITTON
Musician and artist; her father worked on the Imperial Hotel


DAVID ELGIN DODGE
Architect and Wright apprentice; Senior Fellow of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation


RAKU ENDO
Architect and son of Arata Endo; last Japanese architect to apprentice with Wright


TOU ENDO
Architect and son of Arata Endo


GYO HANI
Nephew of the Jiyu Gakuen founders, he was the school’s president during the campaign to preserve Myonichikan


YUICHI INOUE
Historian; specialist on Wright’s followers in Japan


ALEX KERR
Japanologist, preservationist and bestselling author


KOICHI KITAZAWA
Architect; worked with Antonin Raymond


FUMIHIKO MAKI
Pritzker Award-winning architect who credits the Kameki/Nobu Tsuchiura house with awakening his interest in architecture.


TETSUYA MINAMISEKO
Architect and historian; specialist on Wright and the Endos


HIROSHI MISAWA
Architect and historian; Raymond specialist


AKITAKA MIYAI
Architect; Jiyu Gakuen school facilities manager


NOBUO MURAKAMI
Famed head chef at the Imperial Hotel


YASUHIKO NISHIZAWA
Architectural historian and Tsuchiura specialist


RYO OKAWARA
Chancellor, Mukogawa University (formerly the Koshien Hotel, designed by Arata Endo)


BRUCE BROOKS PFEIFFER
Leading Wright scholar and director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives


DAVID STEWART
Architectural historian specializing in Japan’s Western-style buildings


MARGO STIPE
Japanese art expert; registrar, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives


ATSUKO TANAKA
Architectural historian; specialist on Kameki and Nobu Tsuchiura


MASAMI TANIGAWA
Historian and Wright scholar


CHRISTINE VENDREDI-AUZANNEAU
Architectural historian; specialist on Antonin Raymond


CHERILYN WIDELL
Preservationist; instrumental in saving Wright’s Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan


JAMES WILSON
Architect; member of the Committee to Save the Imperial Hotel


ISAMU YONEYAMA
Architectural historian; specialist on Tokyo’s built environment


TADASHI YOSHIWARA
Architect; former partner of Taro Amano