Chujiro Hayashi
{{Infobox person | name = Chūjirō Hayashi | image = Chujiro Hayashi.jpg | image_size = 150px | captian = 林 忠次郎 | birth_date = df=yes|1880 | birth_place = Kanagawa, Japan | death_date = 11 May 1940 (aged 59) |[[ death_place = Atami Shizuoka Prefecture, JAP.
He was cremated and buried in Tokyo, 1940 ]]
| death_cause = by own sword | nationality =Japanese Citizen | known_for =Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho | [[occupation =Imperial Japanese Naval Captain retired 1915 on reserves 1916 [[nihongo|Chujiro Hayashi|林 忠次郎|Hayashi Chūjirō extra=15 September 1880 – 11 May 1940, the disciple of Mikao Usui Mr Chujiro Hayashi was age 47 when they first met each other, [1] [[ Hayashi played a major role in the transmission of "Usui reiki Shiki Ryoho'out of Japan to Hawaii with Hawayo H Takata,[2].]]
[[Hayashi was a Imperial Japanese naval Captain, retired on reserves in 1916. [3] Mr Hayashi used Reiki to treat his patients.]] He began studying with Usui in 1920 at age 47 yrs.[4] [5] Hayashi taught the Usui system of reiki under Reiki Kenkyu-kai in Hawaii.Hayashi had a clinic in Tokyo, located in Shinano-machi, Yotsurya. [[After Usui, Hayashi kept the way of Usui's core teaching in tact. Mrs Hawayo Takata was his official successor as Reiki Grand Master or President from 1940 to 1980 .[6].]]
[[Hayashi initiated and trained [[Mrs Hawayo H Takata[7]]] and helped her bring Reiki to Hawaii in 1937.[8] As some of the popular history of Reiki consists of Takata's life story.][9]]] Hayashi is often considered to be Usui's chief disciple and the second Grand Master of Reiki history. [10]]]
In 1940, Hayashi performed Seppku or 'died by his own blade [[.[11]]] rather than join the war.
Notes
- ^ Helen H Haberly 1990, "Hawayo Takata's Story
- ^ Hawayo Takata Story by Helen J Haberly ISBN 0944135064
- ^ Japan's Maritime Defense Studies Museum and Library , Megeru-Ku, Tokyo.
- ^ Helen H Haberly 1990, "Hawayo Takata's Story
- ^ Helen H Haberly 1990, "Hawayo Takata's Story."
- ^ Hawayo Takata Story by Helen J Haberly ISBN 0944135064
- ^ http://www.usuireiki-ogm.com/mastery_p.html
- ^ Helen H Haberly 1990, "Hawayo Takata's Story
- ^ Living Reiki: Takata's Teachings by Fran Brown : ISBN-0940795108
- ^ Fran BrownLiving Reiki: Takata's Teachings by Fran Brown : ISBN-0940795108
- ^ Yasukini Shrine archive Tokyo Navy record of deaths 1940
See also
- Alternative Medicine
- Laying on of hands
- Glossary of alternative medicine
- Phyllis Furumoto and Paul Mitchell Reiki Masters http://www.usuireiki-ogm.com/mastery_p.html
- Timeline of Reiki history
- The Reiki Alliance USA & Australia, Europe
- Phyllis Lei Furumoto, Office of the Reiki Grand Master, http://www.usuishikiryohoreiki.com/ogm/phyllis-paul/
- Fran Brown Book "Living Reiki , Takata's Teachings, a biography on Hawayo Takata
- Taisho and Showa era