Talk:Kongō Gumi

Takenaka

Is Takenaka Corporotation identical to Takamatsu Corporation? This article states the latter have bought the remnants of Kongo Gumi. Yanestra --84.58.237.52 09:03, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Unlikely, as the Japanese version states that Takamatsu Construction Corp (高松建設株式会社) was the purchaser. Jpatokal 04:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Edit notes - Feb 13th, 2009

The former text looked fine for a marketing pamphlet by Kongo Gumi but misleading too.

Here are the reasons for the modifications made.

- It wasn't the Kongo Gumi brought to Japan. It was one of the engineers who started his business after his arrival to Japan.

- Shitenno-ji was unfortunately destroyed many times due to various reasons, but fortunately rebuilt as many times too. Yes, it stands on the original ground but the current building is a ferro-concrete building from 1963. Yes, the 1963 building survived the 1995 earthquake (good to hear.)

- Horyu-ji was built with a participation by another member from Baekje who arrived in Japan with Kongo Shigemitsu. With that is how Kongo Gumi corporation called "the same construction technique as used by Kongo lives" in the Horyu-ji buildings. (This is how Kongo's homepage describes it.)

Reference: (Kongo Gumi's homepage - Japanese only) http://www.kongogumi.co.jp/enkaku.html

Previous text, for reference:

Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組, Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company and was the world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of another larger construction company. Headquartered in Osaka, the family-owned construction company traced its origins to 578 when Prince Shotoku brought Kongō family members from Baekje to Japan to build the Buddhist Shitennō-ji, a temple that still stands. These temples even endured the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. Over the centuries, Kongō Gumi participated in the construction of many famous buildings, including the 16th century Osaka Castle and Hōryū-ji in Nara.

--- Mantokun (talk) 14:20, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

==Kongō==

Shouldn't Kongō clan or Kongō family also have an article? 76.66.202.139 (talk) 11:40, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

• Is there anything notable about them besides having run the company? --V2Blast (talk) 04:50, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

crest?

Shouldn't the company mon be here? 76.66.202.139 (talk) 11:41, 7 May 2009 (UTC)