Campuses of Keio University explained

Keio University (慶應義塾) is the oldest and most highly rated private university[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] in Japan. Due to its age, its campuses have many historic buildings. This article introduces some of the school's notable architecture.

Mita campus

In 1858, Fukuzawa Yukichi founded the . Ten years later the school's name changed to Keio Gijyuku (慶應義塾); in 1871 it moved to Mita, its main campus. The campus has a number of historic structures.

Maboroshi no mon
  • The former main gate,[11] the original black wooden gate dated to the Edo period. The present stone gate was built in 1913. In 2000, the gate was moved to top of a sloping stone walkway.[12]
    The original building was constructed in 1876. In 1947 the tile-roofed, two-story, Western-style wooden building was restored, and in 1967 it was designated an important cultural property.[13]
    Inari yama
  • Inari yama is atop a flight of stone steps near the Speech Hall. Its name originated from the, built by the Shimabara clan, which was previously located there.[14] Although the shrine is gone, its name persisted after the university's founding.[15]
    The old library and the Speech Hall are iconic campus buildings. The library was completed in 1912 as part of the university's 50th-anniversary celebrations. Designed by Sone Tatsuzō with his architectural partner Chujo Siichiro.[16] It includes the Fukuzawa Memorial Center of modern Japanese studies and the Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko).
    The campus administration building is known as Jyukukan-kyoku. Completed in 1926, it replaced a two-story brick building dating to 1886. Jyukukan-kyoku houses a number of departments, offices and meeting rooms.[17]
    Built in 2011, the new Minami kōsha was part of the university's 150th-anniversary celebration. Its design is similar in its modernism to the old Minami kōsha. The building has a mixture of lecture, study and multipurpose rooms.[18]
    The old school building was constructed for the university's centenary in 1959. The 36-room building, with a capacity of 2,721, was the largest building on the Mita campus for many years.[19]
    Built in 2000, the East Research Building was designed like an old brick library. Near Maboroshi no mon, its arch features a quotation by Fukuzawa Yukichi in Latin: Homo nec ullas cuiquam praepositus nec subditus creatur ("Heaven does not make one man better or worse than others").[20] The is named for American writer and medical doctor Michael Crichton.[21]
    The South Annex was built in 2009 to provide lecture space during the construction of the south building. The annex is headquarters for research coordination and administration, a research and administration center for the arts and a training room for the graduate school of human relations and the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies.[22]
    Designed by Fumihiko Maki, the new library was completed in 1982. The building has six stories above ground and five underground. Maki won the 1982 BCS prize[23] for his design.[24]
    Built by Taisei Kensetsu in 2005, the seismically-isolated, reinforced-concrete South Building has eleven stories above ground and five underground. The building has classrooms, offices and training and counseling rooms.
    New Banraisha
  • Banraisha is a social club for alumni, teachers and students. Designed by and Isamu Noguchi, it was begun in 1946 to replace an 1887 building destroyed by American B-29 bombers in 1944 during the Pacific War. The was completed in 1951. In 2005, it (and its garden) was moved to the roof of the South Building.[25] [26]
    The West Building was constructed in 1959 (at the same time as the old Minami kōsha) as part of the university's centenary, on the site of the (which was destroyed in a 1945 aerial attack).[27]
    Graduate-school building
  • The graduate-school building was constructed as part of the university's 125th anniversary. It houses classrooms, research rooms and offices.[28]

    Other buildings include:

    Keio University Athletic Association and Mita Bungaku offices, internal audit services

    Conference hall, health center and offices

    Classrooms and offices

    Offices, meeting and research rooms

    International dormitory

    Hiyoshi campus

    The Hiyoshi campus opened in 1934. During World War II, some buildings were used by the personnel division, engineering unit,, and . Soon after its relocation the navy constructed a dugout, which remains. The campus still contains some undeveloped areas.[29] Its main road, wide and long (from Hiyoshi station to the Commemorative Hall, lined with 100 ginkgo trees), is a popular walking area. The tree-lined street received in 1997.

    Notable buildings include:

    Built for the university's 100th anniversary in 1958, the hall's restructuring plans have been postponed.[30]

    Indoor fitness facilities

    Outdoor athletic plant

    Public-health facility

    Accommodations

    Designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi (1937)

    Four stories

    Other facilities

    Shinanomachi campus

    In 1917 a opened in Mita, later moving to Shinanomachi and (during World War II) Musashino. Notable buildings include:

    Built in 1987, the 11-story hospital has 1,056 beds.

    Clinic

    Education and research

    Nursing-school lecture room,[37] general-education center, gym

    Other buildings

    The present commercial facility was built in 1995 on the site of the .[38]

    The Shinto shrine is located on campus.

    Yagami campus

    Built in 2000, the building has a basement reference room.[39]

    Shonan Fujisawa campus

    See main article: Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus.

    Shiba kyoritsu campus

    In 2008 Keio University joined with campuses in Shiba and Urawa, opening its Department of Pharmacology and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The campus has three buildings: 1, 2 and 3.[40]

    Shin-kawasaki campus

    The K2Town campus, built in 2000, aims to advance research and development among industry, academia and Kawasaki.[41]

    Further reading

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. http://www.shanghairanking.cn/ARWU2012.html 2012世界大学学术排名
    2. [THE-QS World University Rankings]
    3. According to The Gourman Report (1997), in the medical field, Keio ranked seventeenth in the world, and in Japan headed the list.
    4. According to International professional classification of higher education institutions by Théorie & Pratique (Mines Paris Tech), Keio was ranked 11th on The 377 leading higher education institutions in 2009.
    5. By 世界大学科研竞争力排行榜2007, Keio linked that Rank is 254th, and Total score is 30.58
    6. http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp ARWU2010
    7. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=438 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009
    8. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-university-rankings Asian University Rankings | Top Universities
    9. Web site: MINES ParisTech - CLASSEMENT INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONNEL . 2013-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120105171847/http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/Archives/2007/ . 2012-01-05 . dead.
    10. About citation rate from 1999 to 2009 the Keio ranks thirteenth on a list of Thomson Reuters. The citation rate in material science area Keio ranks first from 2004 to 2008. In ISI-Thomson Scientific, the area of molecular biology, genetics, psychiatric medicine, humanity and social science of Keio made the top ten in 2002 – 2006. In highly oft-quoted papaers, area of neural science, clinical medicine, biology and biochemistry, Keio made the top seven. 国立情報学研究所・トムソンサイエンティフィック 調べ2009年 朝日新聞出版
    11. 堀口大学『百年史』慶應義塾 (written in Japanese.)
    12. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/mamehyakka/81.html 「慶應義塾豆百科No.81幻の門 慶應義塾大学(written in Japanese.)
    13. 「慶應義塾草創時代の熱き弁舌がよみがえる ｢演説｣発祥の場所、｢三田演説館｣『塾』No.267 Summer 2010 (written in Japanese)
    14. In 1829 Daigo Shinsai (大郷信斎) reported gossip to that the old fox lives in the second mansion house of Shimabara clan through the years has a supernatural power in Doucho Rusetsu Vol. 19 (『道聴塗説』第19編).
    15. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/mamehyakka/32.html [慶應義塾豆百科] No.32 稲荷山(慶應義塾)
    16. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/stained_glass/2012/274.html 「ステンドグラス 慶應義塾図書館開館100年 一世紀にわたり親しまれる、義塾のシンボル」『塾』No.274 2012年SPRING (written in Japanese)
    17. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/mamehyakka/15.html「慶應義塾豆百科」No.15 塾監局
    18. http://www.taisei-design.jp/de/works/2005/keio.html 慶應義塾大学三田南館de'-TAISEI DESIGN
    19. http://www.fmc.keio.ac.jp/research/cat36/post_7.html 記憶の南校舎 - 慶應義塾福沢研究センター - Keio University
    20. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/photo_gallery/mita.html 「東館アーケード入り口」三田キャンパスギャラリー
    21. 「塾内NEWS」2000 WINTER（No.227）(written in Japanese)
    22. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/news/2009/kr7a43000000v77y.html 南別館の竣工（三田キャンパス）(慶應義塾)
    23. Web site: 日本建設業連合会（BCS賞） . 2013-02-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130207115215/http://www.nikkenren.com/activity/bcs/ . 2013-02-07 . dead.
    24. http://www.lib.keio.ac.jp/jp/headquarter/gaiyo_mita.html 三田メディアセンター - 慶應義塾大学メディアセンター
    25. http://yuwakai.org/dokokai3/idesanzuihitu2007/idesan20080718/keiou-mita.htm 慶応義塾三田キャンパスの建物 (明治安田生命友和会)
    26. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/history_topics/4.html 「萬來舎」の歴史
    27. Web site: 三田キャンパスマップ(慶應義塾) . 2014-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151129150256/http://www.fbc.keio.ac.jp/jsie/map.pdf . 2015-11-29 . dead .
    28. Web site: 慶應義塾大学 三田キャンパス . 2014-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131027053703/http://www.pm-forum.org/data01/pdf/map00.pdf . 2013-10-27 . dead.
    29. http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/contents/history_topics/5.html 慶應義塾「キャンパスを飾る樹木」
    30. 『慶應塾生新聞』第449号
    31. Web site: Archived copy . www2s.biglobe.ne.jp . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130620053138/http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~lucid/vories/KeioYMCA.htm . 20 June 2013 . dead.
    32. http://www.med.lib.keio.ac.jp/library/building-history.htm 慶應義塾大学信濃町メディアセンター
    33. http://www.ms-fund.keio.ac.jp/prize/index.html THE KEIO MEDICAL SCIENCE PRIZ
    34. 『慶應義塾医学部新聞』第696号
    35. 『慶應義塾医学部新聞』第696号 (written in Japanese)
    36. http://www.waksman.or.jp/ 公益財団法人 日本ワックスマン財団
    37. http://www.nmc.keio.ac.jp/english/index.html Keio University Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care
    38. 『慶應義塾史事典』2008年（平成12年）
    39. http://www.st.keio.ac.jp/english/ Keio University Science and Technology
    40. http://www.pha.keio.ac.jp/en/ KEIO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF PHARMACY
    41. http://www.k2.keio.ac.jp/ 慶應義塾大学新川崎K2タウンキャンパス　新川崎先端研究教育スクエア

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