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Rangaku

Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 蘭學, English: Dutch learning), and by extension Yōgaku (Japanese: 洋学; "Western learning"), 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…

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Rangaku

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related to External links · 20
Rangaku → Cambridge, Chris, Dawn, East Asia Institute, Encyclopedia, ENG, Further, Japan, Japanese History, Kyoto, Media, Open History, Rangaku Kotohajime, Rangaku World, The Human Brain, UK, University, Western Science, Wikimedia CommonsSpackman, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Physical sciences · 19
Rangaku → British, Dutch, Dutch-Japanese, Hoashi Banri, Introductio, Japanese, John Keil, Kyūri-Tsū, Nagasaki Dutch, New Text, Newton, On Natural Laws, Rekishō Shinsho, Shizuki, Shizuki Tadao, Some, This, Transitive Effects, Veram Physicam
related to Beginnings (1640–1720) · 17
Rangaku → After, Caspar Schamberger, Dejima, During, Dutch, Edo, Finally, Initially, Japanese, Nagasaki, One, Redhaired, The, The Dutch, Western, Westerners, With
related to Enduring influence of Rangaku · 15
Rangaku → As, Bakufu, Dutch, English, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Japan, Japan's, Katsu Kaishū, Keisuke, Sakamoto Ryōma, Sakuma Shōzan, Scholars, Shogunate, Western, Yoshida Shōin
related to Expansion and politicization (1839–present) · 14
Rangaku → American, Bakufu, Bansha, Dutch, Edict, Edo, In, Japan, Japan's, Morrison Incident, Repel Foreign Ships, The, The Rangaku, Western
related to Biology · 9
Rangaku → Dejima, Dutch, Encyclopedists, Entomology, German, Itō Keisuke, Japanese, Siebold, The

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dutch japan japanese western citation needed first knowledge nagasaki author medical japan's edo dejima new made one books microscopes clocks

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