Hayashi

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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.


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