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Doho University

Japanese educational institution

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5288571
Source-derived summary

Doho University (同朋大学, Dōhō daigaku) is a private university in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1826, and it was chartered in 1950. It includes the Nagoya College of Music (名古屋音楽大学, Nagoya Ongaku Daigaku), also known locally as Meion (名音). The university is affiliated with the Jōdo Shinshū sect (浄土真宗, "True Pure Land School") of Buddhism.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Doho University” as japanese educational institution. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1826, 1950—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1826-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Doho, University and Japanese can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as japanese educational institution. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5288571. VIAF identifies the subject as 138822393. The Library of Congress control number is nr93017923. Authority coordinates are 35.163, 136.844. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1826 and 1950.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Doho University”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Doho University primary sources, Doho University archive and Doho research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Doho University”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Doho University” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.