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.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 880. 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".De Bary, William et al. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2, p. 443.
See also Hayashi clan (Confucian scholars)
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De Bary, William Theodore, Carol Gluck, Arthur E. Tiedemann. (2005). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press. ; OCLC 255020415 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301
External links Tokyo's Shōhei-kō (Yushima Sedō) today Waseda: 林榴岡