Background
Tomei Hayashi was born in 1708.
林 東 溟
Tomei Hayashi was born in 1708.
Studied under Shu-nan Yamagata. Taught at his home in Osaka and Kyoto.
Once he wrote a preface to a writing which a certain man wrote under the name of Sorai, believing it to be genuine. He lost much of his prestige after this incident.