Hayashi Gahō
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Hayashi Gahō, also known as Hayashi Shunsai, was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher and writer in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa bakufu during the Edo period. He was a mem
Hayashi Gahō was head of the early seidō
Flags mark the entrance to the reconstructed Yushima Seidō (Tokyo).
Yushima Seidō
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Yushima Seidō, is a Confucian temple in Yushima, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in the late 17th century, during the Genroku era of the Edo period. Towards the late Edo period, one of the mo
Hayashi Gahō
…scholarly written work emphasized Neo-Confucianist virtues and order. Gahō became the unofficial rector of what would become Edo’s Confucian Academy, the Shōhei-kō (afterwards known as the Yushima Seidō). This institution stood at the apex of the country-wide educational and training system which was created and…
Taiseiden (Main Hall) of the Yushima Seidō
The Yushima Seido, c. 1830
The 1872 exhibition at the Yushima Seido, considered the founding event of the Tokyo National Museum (ukiyo-e print)
Ruins of the temple following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake