Hayashi Hōkō
Hayashi Hōkō | |
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 Hayashi Hōkō was the 1st rector of Yushima Seidō. | |
| Occupation | Neo-Confucian scholar, academic, administrator, writer |
| Subject | Japanese history, literature |
| Children | Hayashi ____, son |
| Relatives | Hayashi Gahō, father Hayashi Razan, grandfather |
Hayashi Hōkō (1644 – 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]
Notes
- ^ a b c Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al.. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 300.
- ^ De Bary, William et al. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2, p. 443.
References
- De Bary, William Theodore, Carol Gluck, Arthur E. Tiedemann. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press. 10-ISBN 023112984X/13-ISBN 9780231129848; OCLC 255020415
- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
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