was a Japanese

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scholar, teacher and administrator in the system of higher education maintained by the Tokugawa ''bakufu'' during the

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. He was a member of the Hayashi clan of Confucian scholars.

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) . This institution stood at the apex of the country-wide educational and training system which was created and maintained by the

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. Ryūkō's hereditary title was ''

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,'' which, in the context of the Tokugawa shogunate hierarchy, effectively translates as "head of the state university".De Bary, William ''et al.'' (2005)
''Sources of Japanese Tradition,'' Vol. 2, p. 443.
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* De Bary, William Theodore,

Carol Gluck Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941) is an American academic and historian of Japan. She is the George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University and served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1996. Career Gl ...

, Arthur E. Tiedemann. (2005). ''Sources of Japanese Tradition,'' Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press.
OCLC 255020415
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:

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Tokyo's ''Shōhei-kō'' (Yushima Sedō) today
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