Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 蘭學/Shinjitai: 蘭学, literally "Dutch learning"), and by extension Yōgaku (Japanese: 洋学, "Western learning"), is a body of knowledge developed...
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Sugita Genpaku (category Rangaku)
his translation of Kaitai Shinsho (New Book of Anatomy) and a founder of Rangaku (Western learning) and Ranpō (Dutch style medicine) in Japan. He was one...
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Japanese philosophy (section Kokugaku and Rangaku)
Tokugawa shogunate. In addition, rational Confucianism stimulated Kokugaku, Rangaku and the non-official popular thought after the middle Edo period. In the...
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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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and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge ("rangaku") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima. Girardoni M1780 repeating air rifle...
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scientific, technical and medical innovations flowed into Japan through Rangaku ("Dutch learning"). Trade with Korea was limited to the Tsushima Domain...
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During the period, Japan 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...
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of Western learning in Japan known as rangaku (蘭学), or "Dutch learning", where the ran (蘭, "Dutch") in rangaku comes from Oranda, the Japanese word for...
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Kōan Ogata, a samurai, physician and rangaku scholar in late Edo period Japan, noted for establishing an academy which later developed into Osaka University...
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The work of Lavoisier was translated in Japan in the 1840s, through the process of Rangaku. Page from Udagawa Yōan's 1840 Seimi Kaisō...
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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 Japan, sinology...
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culture. Dejima consequently played a key role in the Japanese movement of rangaku (蘭學, Dutch learning), an organized scholarly effort to learn the Dutch...
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polymath and rōnin of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, physician, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic...
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through intermediaries with Tsushima. The study of Western sciences, called "rangaku" through the Dutch enclave of Dejima in Nagasaki led to the transfer of...
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Tanaka Hisashige (category Rangaku)
1881) was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in...
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(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...
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perspective drawing to Japan in the 1734, based on a Dutch text of 1644 (see Rangaku, "Dutch learning" during the Edo period); Chinese texts on the subject...
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During the sakoku period, Japan studied Western sciences and techniques (rangaku) through Dutch traders in Dejima, including geography, medicine, natural...
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Ayasaburō (武田 斐三郎, November 4, 1827 - January 28, 1880), was a Japanese Rangaku scholar, and the architect of the fortress of Goryōkaku in Hokkaidō. Takeda...
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Meanwhile, Japan endeavoured to learn about foreign sciences through rangaku ("Western studies"). To reinforce Japan's capability to carry on the orders...
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and art. Consequently, Nagasaki became a major center of what was called rangaku, or "Dutch learning". During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate governed...
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study") refers to the 1839 suppression of scholars of Western Studies (rangaku) by the Edo Shogunate government of Japan. The incident was provoked by...
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pp. 117, 163. Sugita Genpaku. (1969). Dawn of Western Science in Japan: Rangaku Kotohajime, p. xvi. Online "Significant Earthquake Database" -- U.S. National...
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studying the unique things around her ordinary world and writing them down. Rangaku was an intellectual movement situated in Edo and centered on the study...
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academic study of Dutch culture and language (Neerlandistiek) Japanese Rangaku This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dutch...
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this narrative, the Dutch either sold dolls to Japanese people during the Rangaku period, or vice versa. This concept derives however from the more banal...
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modernization was partly aided by the early study of western science (known as Rangaku) during the Edo period (1603–1868). Another intellectual movement during...
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United States, and Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838–1922), of Hizen, a student of Rangaku, Chinese, and English, who held various ministerial portfolios, eventually...
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study of Japan (kokugaku) as well as with the study of the West (first rangaku, then more broadly yōgaku). This historical field is distinguished from...
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