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[[File:Razan-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Razan's grave at the Hayashi family cemetery in Ichigaya-yamabushi-chô, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo]]
*''Born: [[1583]]''
*''Born: [[1583]]''
*''Died: [[1657]]/1/23''
*''Died: [[1657]]/1/23''
In [[1630]], he founded a Hayashi clan school which would later become the [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo|Shôheizaka gakumonjo]], a major center of Confucian learning for shogunate and [[han|domain]] officials. He added a Confucian shrine, the Senseiden, to the complex in [[1632]].
In [[1630]], he founded a Hayashi clan school which would later become the [[Shoheizaka gakumonjo|Shôheizaka gakumonjo]], a major center of Confucian learning for shogunate and [[han|domain]] officials. He added a Confucian shrine, the Senseiden, to the complex in [[1632]].
Razan is credited with the editing or compilation of numerous works, including the [[1643]] ''[[Kan'ei shoka keizuden]]'', a compilation of samurai genealogies completed alongside his son Hayashi Gahô. He was also involved in promoting the publication of ''Honzô Kômoku'', a Japanese version of the Chinese botanical and pharmacological encyclopedia ''[[Bencao Gangmu|Běncǎo Gāngmù]]''
Razan is credited with the editing or compilation of numerous works, including the [[1643]] ''[[Kan'ei shoka keizuden]]'', a compilation of samurai genealogies completed alongside his son Hayashi Gahô. He was also involved in promoting the publication of ''Honzô Kômoku'', a Japanese version of the Chinese botanical and pharmacological encyclopedia ''[[Bencao Gangmu|Běncǎo Gāngmù]]''. Razan also composed a treatise against [[Christianity]] entitled ''Hai Yaso'' ("Rejecting Jesus").<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 156.</ref>
Razan died in [[1657]]. His son Gahô inherited his positions as shogunal advisor, and as head of the Confucian school.
Razan died in [[1657]]. His son Gahô inherited his positions as shogunal advisor, and as head of the Confucian school.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 294n171, 314n74.
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 294n171, 314n74.
*Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur Tiedemann (eds.), ''Sources of Japanese Tradition'', Second Edition, vol. 2, Columbia University Press (2005), 68.
*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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[[Category:Edo Period]]
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