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).