Nihon Ōdai Ichiran

The Nihon Ōdai Ichiran () is a work on the history of Japan, composed by Hayashi Gahō (), published in the middle of the xviie century. The writer continued in this book the principles Confucéen. This creation was a political and historical chronology authorizing and disseminating by the Shogunat of Edo. Seven volumes were used as reference until the era Meiji (1868-1912).

Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Rin-siyo (Hayashi Gahō), 1652. Japanese O daï itsi ran; or, Annals of the emperors of Japan, tr. by Mr. Isaac Titsingh with the assistance of several interpreters attached to the Dutch counter of Nangasaki; work Re., supplemented and horn. on the original Japanese-Chinese, accompanied by notes and preceded by a mythological Outline of history by Japan, by Mr. J. Klaproth. Paris: Asiatic Society Eastern Translation Fund off Great Britain and Ireland. --'' Two digitalized specimens of this rare book were now made available on line: (1) of the library of the university of Michigan, digitalized January 30, 2007; and (2) of the library of the university of Stanford, digitalized June 23, 2006. '' You can consult it while clicking here.

The work succeeded, partly, consequently that the teachers of the Yushima Seidō gave it the imprimatur of their institution. Hayashi Razan (), father of Hayashi Gahō, was the founder of the school and the Hayashi family will be directors and hereditary Daigaku-No-kami until the end of shogunat. -- Yushima Seido today (in English)

Twenty years after, Gahō Hayashi published 310 volumes of another chronology, Honchoutsugan ). This large encyclopedia was published in 1670.

The 2nd edition of Nihon Ōdai Ichiran is published in 1803; and it would become a reference which was useful, generally available and well-known in these transitional years.

The work of the writers and teachers of the Hayashi family would become more important in the following years. They would work together through the decades, and they would justify the bureaucracy and the preserving ideology of the Bakufu.

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