1549年天主教传教士来日本传教,正式揭开了日本人接触西方文化的序幕。直到1639年德川幕府发布第五道禁教锁国令的近一个世纪里,西方文化大量输入日本,被称为“南蛮文化”。这种文化可大致分成两部分,即天主教的宗教文化(诸如教义、教规及道德伦理观)和西式教育事业及西方科学技术等世俗文化。前者终因触动了日本封建统治者的统治原则而遭到了镇压,但后者却深深植入了日本文化的土壤,并产生了深远的影响。一西方文化传入日本导源于传教士们为配合其传教需要而在日本各地兴办的教会学校。当时的日本,可称作学校的只有足利学 In 1549, Catholic missionaries came to Japan to preach the Japanese prelude to Western culture. Until 1639 Tokugawa shogunate released the fifth forbidden to lock the country order for nearly a century, Western culture imported into Japan in large quantities, known as the “Nanban culture.” This culture can be broadly divided into two parts: Catholic religious culture (such as doctrine, canon and ethics) and secular culture such as western education and Western science and technology. The former was finally suppressed by the principle of ruled by feudal rulers in Japan, but the latter deeply implanted the soil of Japanese culture and had a profound impact. The introduction of a Western culture into Japan stems from the establishment of ecclesiastical schools throughout the country by missionaries to meet their missionary needs. At that time in Japan, only Ashikaga can be called a school