Hayashi Ryūkō Explained

Hayashi Ryūkō
Birth Date:	1681
Birth Place:	Edo
Death Date:	1758
Death Place:	Edo
Occupation:	Neo-Confucian scholar, academic, administrator, writer
Subject:	Japanese history, literature
Children:	Hayashi Hōkoku, son
Relatives:	Hayashi Hōkō, father Hayashi Gahō, grandfather Hayashi Razan, great-grandfather

was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a member of the Hayashi clan of Confucian scholars.

Academician

Hōkō was the fourth Hayashi clan Daigaku-no-kami of the Edo period.

Hōkō is known as the second official rector of the Shōhei-kō.^[1] This academy would come to be known as the Yushima Seidō) . This institution stood at the apex of the country-wide educational and training system which was created and maintained by the Tokugawa shogunate. Ryūkō's hereditary title was Daigaku-no-kami, which, in the context of the Tokugawa shogunate hierarchy, effectively translates as "head of the state university".^[2]

See also

• Hayashi clan (Confucian scholars)

References

• De Bary, William Theodore, Carol Gluck, Arthur E. Tiedemann. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press. ; OCLC 255020415
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301

External links

• Tokyo's Shōhei-kō (Yushima Sedō) today
• Waseda: 林榴岡

Notes and References

1. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 880.
2. De Bary, William et al. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2, p. 443.