Hayashi Ôkei was a head of the [[Hayashi family]] of [[Confucian]] advisors to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. The son of [[Hayashi Fukusai]], he is known for his involvement in compiling the ''[[Tsuko ichiran|Tsûkô ichiran zokushû]]'',<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 1-2.</ref> and for his involvement otherwise in foreign translation and foreign affairs matters of the last decades of the [[Edo period]]. | Hayashi Ôkei was a head of the [[Hayashi family]] of [[Confucian]] advisors to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. The son of [[Hayashi Fukusai]], he is known for his involvement in compiling the ''[[Tsuko ichiran|Tsûkô ichiran zokushû]]'',<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 1-2.</ref> and for his involvement otherwise in foreign translation and foreign affairs matters of the last decades of the [[Edo period]]. |