It was founded as a school for Buddhist priests of the Nishi Hongan-ji denomination in 1639, and became a secularized university in 1876.

[7] The university's professors and students founded the literary magazine Chūōkōron in 1887.

It has three campuses: Fukakusa and Omiya in Kyoto; and Seta in Shiga prefecture.

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