born August 1583, Ky 014D; to, Japan
died Feb. 4, 1657, Edo
Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar.
Originally a student of Buddhism , he became a loyal adherent of Neo-Confucianism , and from 1607 he served the Tokugawa shogunate. He established the Neo-Confucian teachings of Zhu Xi as the ideology of the shogunate, emphasizing loyalty and a hierarchical social order. Hayashi also reinterpreted Shint 014D; from the point of view of Zhu Xi's philosophy, laying the foundation for the Confucianized Shint 014D; of later centuries. In 1630 the third Tokugawa shogun gave him an estate in Edo, where he founded an academy.