Tekijuku

34°41′28.5″N 135°30′11.7″E / 34.691250°N 135.503250°E / 34.691250; 135.503250Tekijuku (適塾) was a private school (Japanese: ja:私塾, Hepburn: shijuku) of Dutch studies (Rangaku) in Osaka, Japan.^[1]^[2] Ogata Kōan, a doctor and scholar of Rangaku, established it in 1838 during the Tenpō era of the late Edo period.^[1]^[2] Its official name was Tekitekisaijuku (適々斎塾), named after one of Ogata's art names, Tekitekisai (適々斎).^[1]^[2] It was located in Osaka's traditional merchant neighborhood of Semba (船場) on the main trading route between Nagasaki and Edo.

The foreign language curriculum focused primarily on medicine, but also taught astronomy and other western sciences.

The school was one of the predecessors of

Graduates

Tekijku is within walking distance of the following train stations:

Midosuji Line
Kitahama Station (Osaka) on the Keihan Railway Keihan Main Line and the Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line
Naniwabashi Station on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line

^ ^a ^b ^c "適塾(てきじゅく)とは？意味や使い方". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-06-16.
^ ^a ^b ^c "History of Osaka University". Osaka University. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
^ Substantiated in Chapter 9 of McClain, J. L., & Wakita, O. (1999). Osaka: The merchants’ capital of early modern japan. Cornell University Press.