Academic traditions of the university reach back to Kaitokudō (懐徳堂), an Edo-period school for local citizens founded in 1724, and Tekijuku (適塾), a school of Rangaku for samurai founded ...

He is known for his key role in introducing Western science, specifically rangaku (Dutch [ie Western] studies), into Japan. Yōan described and established many terms for the morphology, anatomy, ...

The latter half of the 18th century saw the development of rangaku or 'Dutch learning', which represented an important alternative to dominant intellectual practices derived from China. Nagasaki was ...