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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...
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Tokugawa shogunate. In addition,
rational Confucianism stimulated Kokugaku,
Rangaku and the non-official po****r
thought after the
middle Edo period. In the...
- (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...
- 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...
- 1881) was a ****anese businessman, inventor,
mechanical engineer, and
rangaku scholar who was
prominent during the
Bakumatsu and
early Meiji period in...
- (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...
- 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...
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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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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...
