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Wikipedia: Rangaku is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641–1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate’s policy of national isolation. Through Rangaku, Japan learned many aspects of the scientific and technological revolution occurring in Europe at that time, helping the country build up the beginnings of a theoretical and technological scientific base, which helps to explain Japan’s success in its radical and speedy modernization following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854.
![[A picture of Rangaku]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/ChihouZokuryouNoZu_s.jpg "A picture of Rangaku")
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![[A steamship described in Odd De­vi­ces of the Far West.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/EnseiKiki2_s.jpg "A steamship described in Odd De­vi­ces of the Far West.")
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![[Description of insects in the Sayings of the Dutch, 1787.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/KomoZatsuDanInsects_s.jpg "Description of insects in the Sayings of the Dutch, 1787.")
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![[A curios shop demonstrating and selling an Elekiter]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/ElekiterShop_s.jpg "A curios shop demonstrating and selling an Elekiter")
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![[Description of per­]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PerpetualLampAd_s.jpg "Description of per­")
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![[A Western book on me­]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/RangakuMedecine_s.jpg "A Western book on me­")
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![[Account Of Foreign Countries, by Nishikawa Joken, 1708]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/AccountOfForeignCountriesNishikawaJoken1708_s.jpg "Account Of Foreign Countries, by Nishikawa Joken, 1708")
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![[Japan’s first elec­]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/JapanElecter_s.jpg "Japan’s first elec­")
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![[Japan’s first manual on el­]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/RangakuElectricityManual_s.jpg "Japan’s first manual on el­")
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![[Vacuum pump drawing by Uda­gawa, 1834.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/UtagawaVoidPump1834_s.jpg "Vacuum pump drawing by Uda­gawa, 1834.")
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![[A picture of Rangaku]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gyusengekisui_s.jpg "A picture of Rangaku")
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![[An 18th century Jap­an­ese globe.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/18thCenturyGlobe_s.jpg "An 18th century Jap­an­ese globe.")
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![[Animal plate by Itō Keisuke.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/ItoKeisuke_s.jpg "Animal plate by Itō Keisuke.")
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![[Drawing of a Western hot air balloon, from the 1787 Sayings of the Dutch.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/KoumouZatsuwaBalloon_s.jpg "Drawing of a Western hot air balloon, from the 1787 Sayings of the Dutch.")
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![[Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/JapaneseClock2_s.jpg "Two separate foliot balances allow this 18th century Japanese clock to run at two different speeds to indicate...")
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![[Drawing from the Jap­]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/EnseiKiki1_s.jpg "Drawing from the Jap­")
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![[A picture of Rangaku]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/RangakuImage_s.jpg "A picture of Rangaku")
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![[Mechanism of a magic lantern, from Tengu-tsū, 1779.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/JapanMagicalLantern1779_s.jpg "Mechanism of a magic lantern, from Tengu-tsū, 1779.")
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![[Edo women using a te­le­scope. Early 19th cen­tury.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/EdoTelescope_s.jpg "Edo women using a te­le­scope. Early 19th cen­tury.")
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