Hayashi Hōkō
Japanese philosopher
Died when: 88 years 193 days (1062 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Hayashi Hoko (? ??, January 11, 1644 – July 22, 1732), also known as Hayashi Nobutatsu, 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.Hoko was the tutor of Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi.Following in the footsteps of his father, Hayashi Gaho, and his grandfather, Hayashi Razan, Hoko would be the arbiter of official neo-Confucian doctrine of the Tokugawa shogunate.
As a result of his urging, the shogun invested Confucian scholars as samurai.
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