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Hayashi Shihei林子平alternative words: Shihei Hayashi, Hayashi Shihe, Shihe Hayashi keywords: famous person , northern territory , philosophy , scholar related topics: Edo period , Edo shogunate , Ezochi related web sites: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/shojishoji/history/ explanation: Ideologue of Edo period. Born in 1738 at Tokyo in a samuai family. Because of a crime committed by his father, he had been excluded from samurai's hierarchy. He studied at Nagasaki and lived in his uncle's house at Sendai. In order to get a job, he wrote many books: the most famous one is "Kaikoku heidan" which recommended sending massively colons to Hokkaido against Russian incursion. Accused of troubling the public order, his book was banned by Edo shogunate. He died in 1793. | |