Taisho University

is a private university in Nishi-sugamo, Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. The university was founded in the last year of the Taishō period (1926) by merging the three Buddhist colleges. The three were: the Tendai-shū College (, Tendai-shū daigaku', founded in 1885), the Buzan College (, Buzan daigaku, founded in 1887 and funded by Shingon-shū Buzan-ha), and the Religious College (, Shūkyō daigaku'', founded in 1887 and funded by Jōdo-shū). Its school precepts are based on the Tendai school of Buddhism. The concept for the university began when five doctors—Junjiro Takakusu, Masaharu Anesaki, Eun Maeda, Senshō Murakami and Masataro Sawayanagi—who were leaders of Buddhist society in Japan, proposed creating a Buddhist university union. Undergraduate school The undergraduate school consists of the Faculty of Regional Development, Faculty of Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Human Studies, Faculty of Literature, Faculty of Communication and Culture, and Faculty of Buddhist Studies. Graduate school The graduate school offers Advanced Buddhist Studies, Advanced Human Studies, and Advanced Literary Studies.