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Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 蘭學, English:
Dutch learning), and by
extension Yōgaku (****anese: 洋学, "Western learning"), is a body of
knowledge developed by ****an...
- and
insurance of the
Osaka rice brokers. The
study of
Western sciences (
rangaku)
continued through contact with the
Dutch enclave in Nagasaki. The Edo...
- (緒方 洪庵,
August 13, 1810 – July 25, 1863) was a ****anese
physician and
rangaku scholar in late Edo
period ****an,
noted for
establishing an
academy which...
- his
translation of
Kaitai Shinsho (New Book of Anatomy) and a
founder of
Rangaku (Western learning) and Ranpō (Dutch
style medicine) in ****an. He was one...
- (漢学). He then
started to
study Western sciences ("
rangaku") at the age of 33, with the help of the
rangaku scholar Kurokawa Ryōan [jp] (黒川良安). In 1844, he...
- 1881) was a ****anese businessman, inventor,
mechanical engineer, and
rangaku scholar who was
prominent during the
Bakumatsu and
early Meiji period in...
-
Tokugawa shogunate. In addition,
rational Confucianism stimulated Kokugaku,
Rangaku and the non-official po****r
thought after the
middle Edo period. In the...
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During the period, ****an
studied Western sciences and
techniques (called
rangaku, "Dutch studies")
through the
information and
books received through the...
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discusses the
vibrancy of Edo
period rangaku, and
notes the
competition in the
early Meiji period for
foreign experts and
rangaku scholars.
Timon Screech discusses...
- Ayasaburō (武田 斐三郎,
November 4, 1827 -
January 28, 1880), was a ****anese
Rangaku scholar, and the
architect of the
fortress of Goryōkaku in Hokkaidō. Takeda...
