Background
Dokai Hayashi was born in 1813.
林 洞 海
Dokai Hayashi was born in 1813.
Going to Edo (1833), he studied Dutch under Yoan Udagawa and Kaien Udagawa. He then studied Western medicine in Nagasaki.
He became a physician of the Ko- kura Clan (1850) and of the Shogunate (1860). Was appointed deputy director of the Numazu Hospital, Shizuoka Prefecture, (1869) then director of the Osaka Medical School and a Court physician.
Viscount Tadasu Hayashi is his son-in-law.