Rangaku

historical period of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the 17th century

thumb|The Chinese characters (kanji) for "Rangaku". The first character "ran" is an abbreviation of the [[ateji for . The second character "gaku" means "study" and "learning".]] Rangaku (Kyūjitai: , ), and by extension , is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners from 1641 to 1853 because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation (sa'koku). thumb|A meeting of Japan, China, and the West, Shiba Kōkan, l

Japanese engineer (1799–1881)

Japanese surgeon of the Edo period

an array of economic policies introduced in 1842 by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan

Japanese scholar

thumb|Lake Shore (湖畔), by Kuroda Seiki (1897) thumb|Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era (天平の面影), by [[Fujishima Takeji (1902)]]

Japanese artist (1747-1818)

Japanese warship, 1865–1868

Japanese noble (1822-1902)

Japanese physician (1810–1863)

book by Maeno Ryōtaku

Japanese barque

German surgeon and merchant

daimyo (1810-1864)

bilateral relations between Japan and the Netherlands

Confucian scholar (1698-1769)

Japanese physician (1804–1850)

Japanese physician

Japanese scientist (1798 - 1846)

Tekijuku (適塾) was a of Dutch studies (Rangaku) in Osaka, Japan. Ogata Kōan, a doctor and scholar of Rangaku, established it in 1838 during the Tenpō era of the late Edo period. Its official name was , named after one of Ogata's art names, . It was located in Osaka's traditional merchant neighborhood of on the main trading route between Nagasaki and Edo.

daimyo

thumb|Kaitokudō by Sekian Miyake The Kaitokudō (Japanese:懐徳堂) was a merchant academy located in Osaka, Japan, during the Tokugawa period. Although it opened its doors in 1724, it was founded officially in 1726 by Nakai Shūan. It remained a public institution until 1868, although there have been modern revivals.

Japanese philosopher

German physician, pharmacist, botanist, and trader of the Dutch East India Company

Physician and scholar (1739-1786)

Japanese translator

daimyo

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Japanese Rangaku scholar and doctor