Hayashi Razan's Historical Thought

Hayasirazan's historical thought is mainly expounded in the paper. And I will try to premiminarily study the ideology of early Tokugawa Shyogunate by searching Hayashi Razan's conception of history, works of history, and his preferences of anti-buddhism, anti-jesus.In the chapterâ… , review of academic history and academic experience, I will mainly introduce the significance of studying Hayashi Razan and presently study. Also, his private academic experience will be introduced in this chapter.In the chapterâ…¡, I will get a re-analysis about Hayashi Razan's Zhu Xi academic background. This chapter will start from exploring the construction of Hayashi Razan's inner world, and his featunes of historiography.In the chapterâ…¢, I will take two typical examples from Hayashi Razan's historic thought, in his middle age. As the Partâ… , I will introduce Hayashi Razan's origin theory of Japan. As the Partâ…¡, I will introduce Hayashi Razan's comments of Tang-Wu's exile-grusade.In the chapterâ…£, I will based on Hayashi Razan's late book--, to introduce the process of compiling this book. And choose three chips from it, for discussing Hayashi Razan's technique of writing in this book. The three chips are:Empress Jingu, Soga Bashi, Emperor Suiko.