Rangaku - Notable Scholars

Notable Scholars

• Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石, 1657–1725), author of Sairan Igen and Seiyō Kibun
• Aoki Kon'yō (青木 昆陽, 1698–1769)
• Maeno Ryōtaku (前野 良沢, 1723–1803)
• Yoshio Kōgyū (吉雄 耕牛, 1724–1800)
• Ono Ranzan (小野 蘭山, 1729–1810), author of Botanical Classification (本草綱目啓蒙, Honzō Kōmoku Keimō?).
• Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, 1729–79) proponent of the “Elekiter”
• Gotō Gonzan (後藤 艮山)
• Kagawa Shūan (香川 修庵)
• Sugita Genpaku (杉田 玄白, 1733–1817) author of New Treatise on Anatomy (解体新書, Kaitai Shinsho?).
• Asada Gōryū (麻田 剛立, 1734–99)
• Motoki Ryōei (本木 良永, 1735–94), author of Usage of Planetary and Heavenly Spheres (天地二球用法, Tenchi Nikyū Yōhō?)
• Shiba Kōkan (司馬江漢, 1747–1818), painter.
• Shizuki Tadao (志筑 忠雄, 1760–1806), author of New Book on Calendar Phenomena (暦象新書, Rekishō Shinsho?), 1798 and translator of Engelbert Kaempfer's Sakokuron.
• Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲, 1760–1835), first physician who performed surgery using general anaesthesia.
• Takahashi Yoshitoki (高橋 至時, 1764–1804)
• Motoki Shōei (本木 正栄, 1767–1822)
• Udagawa Genshin (宇田川 玄真, 1769–1834), author of New Volume on Public Welfare (厚生新編, Kōsei Shinpen?).
• Aoji Rinsō (青地 林宗, 1775–1833), author of Study of the Atmosphere (気海観瀾, Kikai Kanran?), 1825.
• Hoashi Banri (帆足 万里, 1778–1852), author of Physical Sciences (究理通, Kyūri Tsū?).
• Takahashi Kageyasu (高橋 景保, 1785–1829)
• Matsuoka Joan (松岡 恕庵)
• Udagawa Yōan (宇田川 榕菴, 1798–1846), author of Botanica Sutra (菩多尼訶経, Botanika Kyō?, using the Latin “botanica” in ateji) and Chemical Sciences (舎密開宗, Seimi Kaisō?)
• Itō Keisuke (伊藤 圭介, 1803–1901), author of Western Plant Taxonomy (泰西本草名疏, Taisei Honzō Meiso?)
• Takano Chōei (高野 長英, 1804–50), physician, dissident, co-translator of a book on the tactics of the Prussian Army, Tactics of the Three Combat Arms (三兵答古知幾, Sanpei Takuchiiki?), 1850.
• Ōshima Takatō (大島 高任, 1810–71), engineer — established the first western style blast furnace and made the first Western-style cannon in Japan.
• Kawamoto Kōmin (川本 幸民, 1810–71), author of Strange Machines of the Far West (遠西奇器述, Ensei Kikijutsu?), completed in 1845, published in 1854.
• Ogata Kōan (緒方 洪庵, 1810–63), founder of the Tekijuku, and author of Introduction to Pathology (病学通論, Byōgaku Tsūron?), Japan’s first treatise on the subject.
• Sakuma Shōzan (佐久間 象山, 1811–64)
• Hashimoto Sōkichi (橋本 宗吉)
• Hazama Shigetomi (間 重富)
• Hirose Genkyō (広瀬 元恭), author of Science Compendium (理学提要, Rigaku Teiyō?).
• Takeda Ayasaburō (武田 斐三郎, 1827–80), architect of the fortress of Goryōkaku
• Ōkuma Shigenobu (大隈 重信, 1838–1922)
• Yoshio Kōgyū (吉雄 耕牛, 1724–1800), translator, collector and scholar