蕃ばん書しょ調しらべ所しょ

noun

Institute for the Study of Western Books; Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Books

Historical term for a late Edo-period government institute that translated and studied Western books, especially Dutch ones. Later renamed 洋書調所 and then 開成所.

• 蕃ばん書しょ調所しらべしょは、幕ばく末まつに西せい洋ようの学がく問もんを研けん究きゅうするために設せつ立りつされた。

  The Institute for the Study of Western Books was established at the end of the Edo period to research Western learning.