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*''Born: [[1618]]''
*''Died: [[1680]]''
*''Other Names'': 林春斎 ''(Hayashi Shunsai)''
*''Japanese'': [[林]] 鵞峰 ''(Hayashi Gahou)''
Hayashi Gahô, also known as Shunsai, was a prominent [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] advisor to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the 17th century. The son and successor to [[Hayashi Razan]], he played a significant role in establishing Neo-Confucianism's central position in shogunate political ideology and policy, and the central position of the [[Hayashi clan]] in advising the shogunate on such matters.
Gahô worked closely with his father in his youth, and succeeded him as both head of the Hayashi family, and of the family's Confucian academy, upon Razan's death in [[1657]].
The Confucian academy founded by Razan in [[1630]] was formally recognized by the shogunate with the name Kôbun-in (roughly, "Institute of Broad/Vast Culture/Letters") during Gahô's time, and Gahô himself was named ''kôbun-in gakushi'' ("scholar of the Kôbun-in"). He added a dormitory to the academy and began taking on his own disciples in earnest in [[1663]].
He is known for a number of notable scholarly works, including the 310-volume ''[[Honcho tsugan|Honchô tsugan]]'', begun by Razan and completed by Gahô in [[1670]]; the ''[[Kan'ei shoka keizuden]]'' ("Genealogies of the Houses of the Kan'ei Era"), on which he worked alongside his father in [[1641]]-[[1643]]<ref>Mary Elizabeth Berry, ''Japan in Print''. University of California Press, 2006. pp113-115.; "[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AF%9B%E6%B0%B8%E8%AB%B8%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E5%9B%B3%E4%BC%9D Kan'ei shoka keizuden]." ''Digital Daijisen''. Shogakukan, Inc.</ref>; the preface to the ''[[Honcho gashi|Honchô gashi]]'' ("History of Paintings of the Realm")<ref>"[http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/h/honchougashi.htm Honchou Gashi]." ''JAANUS: Japan Architecture and Art Net Users System''. 2001. Accessed 30 December 2011.</ref>; and ''[[Ka'i hentai]]'', a work on foreign peoples and foreign relations, begun in [[1674]].
Gahô died in [[1680]], and was succeeded as head of the family, and of the school, by his son [[Hayashi Nobuatsu]] (aka Hôkô).
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==References==
*Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), ''Sources of Japanese Tradition'', Second Edition, vol. 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 68.
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*''Died: [[1680]]''
*''Other Names'': 林春斎 ''(Hayashi Shunsai)''
*''Japanese'': [[林]] 鵞峰 ''(Hayashi Gahou)''
Hayashi Gahô, also known as Shunsai, was a prominent [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] advisor to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] in the 17th century. The son and successor to [[Hayashi Razan]], he played a significant role in establishing Neo-Confucianism's central position in shogunate political ideology and policy, and the central position of the [[Hayashi clan]] in advising the shogunate on such matters.
Gahô worked closely with his father in his youth, and succeeded him as both head of the Hayashi family, and of the family's Confucian academy, upon Razan's death in [[1657]].
The Confucian academy founded by Razan in [[1630]] was formally recognized by the shogunate with the name Kôbun-in (roughly, "Institute of Broad/Vast Culture/Letters") during Gahô's time, and Gahô himself was named ''kôbun-in gakushi'' ("scholar of the Kôbun-in"). He added a dormitory to the academy and began taking on his own disciples in earnest in [[1663]].
He is known for a number of notable scholarly works, including the 310-volume ''[[Honcho tsugan|Honchô tsugan]]'', begun by Razan and completed by Gahô in [[1670]]; the ''[[Kan'ei shoka keizuden]]'' ("Genealogies of the Houses of the Kan'ei Era"), on which he worked alongside his father in [[1641]]-[[1643]]<ref>Mary Elizabeth Berry, ''Japan in Print''. University of California Press, 2006. pp113-115.; "[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%AF%9B%E6%B0%B8%E8%AB%B8%E5%AE%B6%E7%B3%BB%E5%9B%B3%E4%BC%9D Kan'ei shoka keizuden]." ''Digital Daijisen''. Shogakukan, Inc.</ref>; the preface to the ''[[Honcho gashi|Honchô gashi]]'' ("History of Paintings of the Realm")<ref>"[http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/h/honchougashi.htm Honchou Gashi]." ''JAANUS: Japan Architecture and Art Net Users System''. 2001. Accessed 30 December 2011.</ref>; and ''[[Ka'i hentai]]'', a work on foreign peoples and foreign relations, begun in [[1674]].
Gahô died in [[1680]], and was succeeded as head of the family, and of the school, by his son [[Hayashi Nobuatsu]] (aka Hôkô).
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==References==
*Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), ''Sources of Japanese Tradition'', Second Edition, vol. 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 68.
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]