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, ...

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 by Ogata Kōan ...