Otsuma Women's University

Otsuma Women's University (大妻女子大学, Ōtsuma-joshi-daigaku) is a private university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1949, it is located in Sanbanchō, near the Imperial Palace in the Chiyoda City. It began as a sewing school opened by Otsuma Kotaka (1884–1970) in 1908. From this grew the Otsuma Girls' High School (1935) and the Otsuma Women's Vocational School (1942). Otsuma Kotaka (大妻コタカ) was a pioneer of traditional women's education, emphasizing scientific training in homemaking skills. For almost twenty years the university specialized in home economics and became synonymous with the education of 'good wives and wise mothers' (良妻賢母, ryōsai-kenbo). An adjacent two-year junior college was established in 1950.

Type

University

Founded

1908

Also known as

Otsuma-Joshi-Daigaku