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Chuo Ward, Tokyo Metropolis

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Langakkotohajimenochi

official name：The Birthplace of "Rangaku Kotohajime"

English name：The Birthplace of "Rangaku Kotohajime"

Land of the beginning of Dutch studies

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    中央区明石町にある、日本の医学・教育史における最重要スポットの解説文ですね。外国人観光客にもその歴史的価値が伝わるよう、正確かつ自然な英語にしました。 英語訳 Maeno Ryotaku, a physician and scholar of Western Learning (Rangaku) for the Okudaira family of the Nakatsu Domain, collaborated with Sugita Genpaku and others to translate a Dutch medical text. In 1774, their work was published as "Kaitai Shinsho" (New Book of Anatomy). The immense struggles they faced during the translation process are documented in detail in "Rangaku Kotohajime" (The Beginnings of Western Learning), written later by Sugita Genpaku. Immediately adjacent to this monument is the site where Fukuzawa Yukichi—who was also from the Nakatsu Domain—opened his private school for Western Learning. This school eventually evolved into present-day Keio University.

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    Name
    The Birthplace of "Rangaku Kotohajime"
    Location
    〒103-0044 11, Akashicho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Installation place of explanation board etc.

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    4 minutes on foot from Tsukiji Station Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

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