Hayashi Nobuatsu

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  • Born: 1644
  • Died: 1732
  • Other Names: Hôkô, Daigaku-no-kami
  • Japanese: 信篤 (Hayashi Nobuatsu)

Hayashi Nobuatsu was a Confucian scholar and advisor to five shoguns, from Tokugawa Ietsuna to Tokugawa Yoshimune.

Also known as Hayashi Hôkô, Nobuatsu was the second son of Hayashi Shunsai. He became head of the Hayashi clan in 1680, and was named head in 1690 of the Shoheizaka gakumonjo, the Confucian school established by his grandfather Hayashi Razan; the school was moved in that same year onto the site of the Yushima Seidô. He later passed on headship of the school to his son, establishing a precedent for the position as hereditary.

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 310n21.