Hayashi Jussai

Hayashi Jussai

Hayashi Jussai ( Japanese 林 述 斎 ; born August 5, 1768 in Iwamura, Mino Province ; died August 30, 1841 ) was a Japanese Confucianist and the 8th head of the Hayashi School.

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Hayashi Jussai was the third son of Matsudaira Norimori (松 平 乗 薀; 1716–1783), the daimyo at Iwamura Castle . He had settled under Hosoi Heishū (細 井 平洲; 1728–1801) a. a. dealt with Confucianism and was chosen by Matsudaira Sadanobu to continue the Hayashi family, advisor to the Shogun, after Hayashi Nobutaka (林信敬, * 1767) died in 1793 with no descendants. So in 1794 he became head of the Shōheikō, i.e. the Yushima Seidō , as part of Sadanobu's program to establish the Neo-Confucian direction of Zhu Xi as the official philosophy of the Shogunate.

With the help of Shibano Ritsusan (柴 野 栗 山; 1736-1807), Bitō Nishū (尾 藤 二 洲; 1745-1814) and Koga Seiri (古 賀 精 里; 1750-1817) Jussai reorganized the curriculum of the school, making it the most important training center in Japan has been. Jussai directed the compilation of the history of the Tokugawa under the name Tokugawa Jikki .

Other works by Hayashi are "Isson sōsho" (佚 存 叢書), a teaching work based on Chinese sources, and "Compilation of the most important families of the Kansei era (1789–1801)" (寛 政 重修 諸 家譜, Kansei chōshū shoka-fu) .

Remarks

1. ↑ From the compilation "Illustrations of well-known people in modern times" (名家 肖像, Meika shōzō).
2. ↑ Today part of Ena (Gifu) .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Hayashi Jussai . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 512.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Hayashi is the family name, Jussai the first name.