page_title: Campuses of Keio University
section_title: Mita campus
hierarchical_section_title: Campuses of Keio University / Mita campus
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 2009.5日本国内で塾生 (talk)が撮影。
context_page_description: Keio University is the oldest and most highly rated private university in Japan. Due to its age, its campuses have many historic buildings.
context_section_description: In 1858, Fukuzawa Yukichi founded the Rangaku-jyuku (蘭学塾, Western School). 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, 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.
  Mita Enzetsu kan (三田演説館, Mita Speech Hall)
  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.
  Inari yama
  Inari yama is atop a flight of stone steps near the Speech Hall. Its name originated from the Inari-shi (稲荷祠, little Ynari shrine), built by the Shimabara clan, which was previously located there. Although the shrine is gone, its name persisted after the university's founding.
  Keio Gijyuku Toshokan kyūkan (慶應義塾図書館・旧館, Old Keio Gijyuku library)
  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. It includes the Fukuzawa Memorial Center of modern Japanese studies and the Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko).
  Jukukan-kyoku (塾監局, Administration building)
  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.
  New Minami kōsha (南校舎(新), South school building)
  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.
  Mita kōsha (南校舎(旧), Old school building)
  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.
  Higashi kan (東館, East Research Building)
  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"). The Kuraiton Kafe (クライトンカフェ, Crichton cafe) is named for American writer and medical doctor Michael Crichton.
  Minami bekkan (南別館, South Annex)
  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.
  Toshokan shin kan (図書館新館, New library)
  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 for his design.
  Minami kan (南館, South Building)
  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 ja:Yoshiro Taniguchi 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 Shin banraisha (新萬來舎, new Banraisha) was completed in 1951. In 2005, it (and its garden) was moved to the roof of the South Building.
  Nishi kosha (西校舎, West Building)
  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 Dai kōdō (大講堂, main lecture hall) (which was destroyed in a 1945 aerial attack).
  Graduate-school building
  The graduate-schoo
caption: Noguchi garden
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