在日本,欧洲近代文化的传播始于八代将军德川吉宗时代,因以荷兰语为主要媒介,故称“兰学”。 欧洲文化是和天主教一起传到日本的。由于日本天主教徒笃信“平等”教义,威胁了等级森严的德川幕府统治,而信仰新教的荷兰商人从中挑唆,德川幕府于 In Japan, the spread of European modern culture began in the era of the Tokugawa Tokugawa, the eighth-generation general, and was called “Lanxue” because it used Dutch as the main medium. European culture was transmitted to Japan together with Catholicism. Because Japanese Catholics believed in the “equality” doctrine and threatened the stern hierarchy of the Tokugawa shogunate, Dutch merchants who believe in Protestantism provoked from it and the Tokugawa Shogunate