Hayashi
The heads of the Hayashi Go School (林家) (1612-1884):
01. Monnyusai 門入斉 8-Dan 1612-???? 02. Monnyu 門入 6-Dan ????-1685 03. Gen'etsu 門入 (玄悦) 5-Dan 1685-1706 04. Bokunyu 門入 (朴入) 8-Dan 1706-1726 05. Incho 門入 (因長) 8-Dan 1727-1743 06. Monri 門入 (門利) 7-Dan 1743-1746 07. Tennyu 門入 (転入) 7-Dan 1746-1757 08. Yugen 門入 (祐元) 7-Dan 1757-1789 09. Mon'etsu 門入 (門悦) 7-Dan 1789-1816 10. Tetsugen 門入 (鉄元) 6-Dan 1816-1819 11. Genbi 元美 8-Dan 1819-1848 12. Hakuei 門入 (柏栄) 7-Dan 1848-1864 (h) Yubi 5-Dan (1856-1862) 13. Shuei 5-Dan 1864-1884
In 1884, Hayashi Shuei merged the School into the Honinbo School, becoming Honinbo Shuei.
All heads of the School from Gen'etsu through Hakuei were known when head as Hayashi Monnyu, in the same way as the standard Inoue Inseki and Yasui Senkaku. See iemoto system.
The Hayashi is the only School to never have a Meijin (if you discount Shuei).
Hayashi in Japanese means forest.
--TimBrent
John F. hayashi is better rendered as a wood. The point is important in view of the legend that when the Shogun offered a surname to this school, he suggested Mori, or forest. The recipient modestly declined and chose instead the more humble Hayashi.
Also, I think a better way of describing Shuei's translation back to the Honinbio family could be found, as the Hayashi family did not then cease. A collateral branch came down through Yubi - Hayashi Sano was the 16th generation, for example, which probably makes the Hayashi family the first to have a notable female player.