洋よう学がく

noun

Western learning

Historical term for Western academic disciplines introduced to Japan in the late Edo and early Meiji periods, often contrasted with 和学 (Japanese learning) and 漢学 (Chinese learning).

• 幕ばく末まつには洋よう学がくが急きゅう速そくに広ひろまった。

  Western learning spread rapidly in the late Edo period.

• 彼かれは洋よう学がくを修おさめるために長なが崎さきへ留りゅう学がくした。

  He went to Nagasaki to study Western learning.