Hayashi Ryūkō

Hayashi Ryūkō (林 榴岡, 1681 – December 11, 1758) 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.

Hayashi Ryūkō
Hayashi Ryūkō, 2nd rector of Yushima Seidō
Born	1681 Edo
Died	1758 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

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)

Notes

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.

References

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

• De Bary, William Theodore, Carol Gluck, Arthur E. Tiedemann. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231129848; OCLC 255020415
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301

External links

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