作为日本第一所大学,东京大学的创建对日本大学早期的制度探索和精神酿制发挥了重要作用。东京大学在创建初期探索建立的治理机制、分科大学制度、讲座制、研究生院制度等成为日本大学制度的历史原点。这些具有本土化特色大学制度的成功建构,其背后蕴藏着的诸如追求卓越的品格、多元化大学职能观、嫁接与自主的文化发展逻辑等精神特质,影响了日本大学系统的历史发展,使得创办之初的东京大学成为日本大学精神的播火者。
The establishment of the first university of Japan, University of Tokyo, has played an important role at the early stage of system exploration and spirit brewing of Japanese universities. The institutions, such as governing mechanism, departmental university system, lecture system, and graduate school system created during the early years of the University of Tokyo, have become the original point of institutional development of Japanese universities. The spirit power in the successful construction of university system are embodied with localized characteristic, such as the quality of pursing excellence, the viewpoint of multi-function of university, the cultural development logic of grafting and freedom, which has affected the systematic development of Japanese universities, making the early Tokyo University the seeder of the spirit of Japanese universities.