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Rangaku蘭学alternative words: Dutch study, Dutch studies keywords: philosophy related topics: Edo period , Edo shogunate , Sakoku , Sugita Genpaku explanation: During Edo period under Sakoku regime, only the contact with Dutch among Europeans was authorized, because they were not interested in missionary activities. Since the 18th century, Edo shogunate had relaxed the rule on import of Dutch books and many Japanese began to learn Dutch language to absorb great scientific and technique discoveries made in Europe. This predominance of Dutch language continued until the mid 19th century when English and French succeeded it. Shushigaku朱子学alternative words: Shishi gaku, Neo Confucianism, Chu Hsi school, Zhu Xi school keywords: china , philosophy , school related topics: Edo shogunate , Hayashi Razan explanation: Contrary to other Asian nations, Japanese had never been eager to adopt Confucianism and even sometimes persecuted it. After a take over of China by Manchu tribe in 17th century, many Chinese scholars fled to Japan and propagated Neo Confucianism which had been created during Song dynasty in 12th century. Its teaching, "the full respect of a social order" being perfectly fit to the needs of Edo shogunate, it became its official doctrine through the work of Hayashi Razan. Page number: 1 2 12 articles extracted from postgresql database. | |