Died 1758, Edo Children Hayashi Hōkoku Grandparent Hayashi Gahō | Parents Hayashi Hōkō Grandchild Hayashi Ryūtan | |
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Occupation Neo-Confucian scholar, academic, administrator, writer Subject Japanese history, literature Relatives Hayashi Hōkō, father
Hayashi Gahō, grandfather
Hayashi Razan, great-grandfather Similar Hayashi Razan, Hayashi Gahō, Hayashi Jussai | ||
Hayashi Ryūkō (林 榴岡, 1681 – December 11, 1758) was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a member of the Hayashi clan of Confucian scholars.
Academician
Hōkō was the fourth Hayashi clan Daigaku-no-kami of the Edo period.
Hōkō is known as the second official rector of the Shōhei-kō. This academy would come to be known as the Yushima Seidō) . This institution stood at the apex of the country-wide educational and training system which was created and maintained by the Tokugawa shogunate. Ryūkō's hereditary title was Daigaku-no-kami, which, in the context of the Tokugawa shogunate hierarchy, effectively translates as "head of the state university.