Hayashi Hōkō

In this Japanese name, the family name is Hayashi.
Hayashi Hōkō

Hayashi Hōkō, 1st rector of Yushima Seidō
Born 1644
Edo
Died 1732
Edo
Occupation Neo-Confucian scholar, academic, administrator, writer
Subject Japanese history, literature
Children Hayashi Ryūkō, son
Relatives Hayashi Gahō, father
Hayashi Razan, grandfather

Hayashi Hōkō (林 鳳岡, January 11, 1644 July 22, 1732), also known as Hayashi Nobutatsu, 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.

Hōkō was the tutor of Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi.[1]

Following in the footsteps of his father, Hayashi Gahō, and his grandfather, Hayashi Razan, Hōkō would be the arbiter of official neo-Confucian doctrine of the Tokugawa shogunate. As a result of his urging, the shogun invested Confucian scholars as samurai.[1]

Academician

Hōkō was the third Hayashi clan Daigaku-no-kami of the Edo period. After 1691, Hōkō is known as the first official rector of the Shōhei-kō (afterwards known as the Yushima Seidō) which was built on land provided by the shogun.[1] This institution stood at the apex of the country-wide educational and training system which was created and maintained by the Tokugawa shogunate. Gahō'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]

The scholars of the Hayashi school were taught to apply what they had learned from a Confucian curriculum. Typically, they applied the Confucian texts conservatively, relying on Soong Confucian anlayis and metaphysical teachings.[3]

The neo-Confucianist scholar Arai Hakuseki generally expressed scant regard for opinions expressed by Hayashi Hōkō.[3]

Selected works

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 300.
  2. De Bary, William et al. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2, p. 443.
  3. 1 2 Arakai, James et al. (2008). Early Modern Japanese Literature: an Anthology, 1600-1900, p. 378 n12.
  4. Tarling, Nicholas. (1998). The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1, p. 161.

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Flags mark the entrance to the reconstructed Yushima Seidō (Tokyo).

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Preceded by
Hayashi Gahō
1st rector of Yushima Seidō
1691–1732
Succeeded by
Hayashi Ryūkō


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