[1][2][3] Ōtani University traces its origin to the early Edo period (1603 – 1868).

Shinshū University was closely associated with Kiyozawa Manshi (1863–1903), a Shin Buddhist reformer from a low-ranking samurai background who studied at the University of Tokyo under the American philosopher Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908).

[1][2][6] In 1904 the university achieved the legal status of senmon gakkō, or vocational school.

The university moved to new buildings in the Koyamahigashifusa-chō neighborhood of Kita-ku in 1913, remains at this location.

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