Hayashi Akira

Hayashi Akira (林 韑, February 10, 1800 – October 12, 1859) (also known as Hayashi Fukusai) was an Edo period scholar-diplomat serving the Tokugawa shogunate in a variety of roles similar to those performed by serial Hayashi clan neo-Confucianists since the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the hereditary Daigaku-no-kami descendant of Hayashi Razan, the first head of the Tokugawa shogunate's neo-Confucian academy in Edo, the Shōhei-kō (Yushima Seidō).

For the swimmer, see Akira Hayashi (swimmer).
In this Japanese name, the surname is Hayashi.
Hayashi Akira
Hayashi Akira, 9th rector of Yushima Seidō.
Born1800
Died1859
Edo
OccupationNeo-Confucian scholar, academic, administrator, writer, diplomat
SubjectJapanese history, literature
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