id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5444 Hayashi Razan - Wikipedia .html text/html 2070 380 64 Hayashi Razan (林 羅山, 1583 – March 7, 1657), also known as Hayashi Dōshun,[1] was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher and writer, serving as a tutor and an advisor to the first four shōguns of the Tokugawa bakufu. The intellectual foundation of Razan's life's work was based on early studies with Fujiwara Seika (1561–1619), the first Japanese scholar who is known for a close study of Confucius and the Confucian commentators. In the elevated context his father engendered, Hayashi Gahō (formerly Harukatsu), worked on editing a chronicle of Japanese emperors compiled in conformance with his father's principles. After Razan's death, Gahō finished work his father had begun, including a number of other works designed to help readers learn from Japan's history. In the 19th century, this scholar-bureaucrat found himself at a crucial nexus of managing political change, moving arguably "by the book" through uncharted waters with Razan's well-settled theories as the only guide.[9] Social and political philosophy Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5444.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5444.txt