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[[File:SuzakuOji street of Heiankyo.jpg|thumb|right|Daigaku-ryō was at the northern end of the broad avenue which is at the center of this model of ancient [[Heian-kyō]] ]]
{{Nihongo|'''Daigaku-ryō'''|大学寮}} was the Imperial university of Japan from the 7th century until the end of the 19th century.<ref name="nussbaum138">[[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]]. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA138 "''Daigaku-ryō''"] in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 138.</ref>

For five centuries, the ''Daigaku-ryō'' was near the Suzaku Mon at southern [[wikt:boundary|boundary]] of the Imperial enclosure.

==History==
In 701, the ''Daigaku-ryō'' became part of the {{nihongo|[[Shikibu-shō|Ministry of the Civil Services]]|式部省,|''Shikibu-shō''}}.<ref>[http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/civadminmin.shtml Ministry of Civil Administration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207171103/http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk/civadminmin.shtml |date=2012-02-07 }}, Sheffield; retrieved 2012-2-16.</ref>

[[Emperor Kammu|Prince Yamabe]] was head of the ''Daigaku-ryō'' in 766 (''[[Tenpyō-jingo]] 2'').<ref>Goethem, Ellen Van. (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=XpyR7KHkvc0C&pg=PA21  ''Nagaoka: Japan's Forgotten Capital,'' p. 21 n45]; [[Richard Ponsonby-Fane|Ponsonby-Fane, Richard]]. (1956). ''Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794–1869,'' p. 100.</ref>

On May 27, 1177 (''[[Angen]] 3, 28th day, 4th month'')<!-- NengoCalc 安元三年四月二十八日 -->, a fire destroyed the building of the ''Daigaku-ryō''.<ref>Minakata Kumagusu and F. Victor Dickens. (1905). [https://books.google.com/books?id=f1vJRjCl8HkC&pg=PA238  "A Japanese Thoreau of the Twelfth Century,"] ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,'' p. 238.</ref>

==Organization==
The {{nihongo|director|大学頭|[[Daigaku-no-kami]]}} was responsible for the examination of students and for festivals which honor [[Confucius]].<ref>[[George Sansom|Sansom, George Bailey]]. (1932). [https://books.google.com/books?id=-k4gAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA83  "Early Japanese Law and Administration,"] ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan,'' p. 83.</ref>

Other members of the staff of ''Daigaku-ryō' included: 
:* {{nihongo|Chief experts on the history of Japan and China|紀伝博士,|''Kiden hakase''}}.<ref name="titsingh428">[[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA428 ''Annales des empereurs du japon,'' p. 428].</ref>  
:* {{nihongo|Chief experts on classical Chinese works|明経博士,|''Myōgyō hakase''}}.<ref name="titsingh428"/>
:* {{nihongo|Chief experts on laws of Japan and China|明法博士,|''Myōbō hakase''}}.<ref name="titsingh428"/>
:* {{nihongo|Chief experts on mathematics|算博士,|''San hakase''}}.<ref name="titsingh428"/>
:* {{nihongo|Instructors of Japanese and Chinese literature|直講,|''Chok'kō''}} -- two positions.<ref name="titsingh428"/>
:* {{nihongo|Instructors in pronunciation of words|音博士,|''On hakase''}} -- two positions.<ref name="titsingh428"/>
:* {{nihongo|Instructors in [[East Asian calligraphy|calligraphy]]|書博士,|''Sho hakase''}} -- two positions.<ref name="titsingh428"/>

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