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] 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.

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