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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...
- scientific,
technical and
medical innovations flowed into ****an
through Rangaku ("Dutch learning").
Trade with
Korea was
limited to the
Tsushima Domain...
-
Tokugawa shogunate. In addition,
rational Confucianism stimulated Kokugaku,
Rangaku and the non-official po****r
thought after the
middle Edo period. In the...
- 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...
-
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...
- and also
created an air gun
based on the
study of
Western knowledge ("
rangaku")
acquired from the
Dutch in Dejima. Kunitomo's
invention of a new type...
- medicine, as well as
Western surgical techniques he had
learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by
extension "Western learning"). Hanaoka...
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study of China.
Kangaku was the
counterpart of
kokugaku and Yōgaku or
Rangaku.
Scholars of
kangaku are
called kangakusha (漢学者). In
modern ****an, sinology...
- (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...
