Koan Ogata and the Scientific Knowledge of Tekijuku and Modern Osaka

The Museum of Osaka University

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Koan Ogata, a physician and student of Western knowledge in the late Edo era. 2013 is also 175th year since Ogata opened the Tekijuku, now an Important Historical and Cultural Property, which later became Osaka University. While educating his students, Ogata researched and taught Western medicine at Tekijuku, translated several scientific Dutch texts, and worked to find cures for smallpox and cholera.

This exhibition not only presents important materials related to Ogata and the Tekijuku, but also highlights the unique relationship fostered by Ogata between scholarship and the people of modern Osaka. Displayed donations from the Ogata Institute for Medical and Chemical Research include masterpieces of writing and Western painting that were important in Ogata’s age. By informing visitors about Ogata and the history of the Tekijuku, the exhibition hopes to provide a foundation for continuing and advancing Osaka’s legacy of scientific knowledge.

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