Chujiro Hayashi
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Chujiro Hayashi (林 忠次郎? 1879-1940), a disciple of Mikao Usui, played a major role in the transmission of Reiki out of Japan and for turning it into a less mystical practice.
Hayashi was a naval physician, and employed Reiki to treat his patients. He began studying with Usui in 1925. The following year, he took over Usui's clinic after the master's death and moved it from Nakano, Tokyo to Shinano Machi. In 1930 and 1931, Hayashi made significant changes to Usui's system and renamed it Hayashi Reiki Ryoho Kenkyukai.
Hayashi's system stressed physical healing and taught a more codified and simpler set of Reiki techniques, stressing manual treatment. Among Hayashi's contributions was a set of fixed hand positions to be used in the course of a treatment; Usui often preferred a more mystical means of diagnosing the patient's problem.
Hayashi initiated and trained Hawayo Takata and helped her bring Reiki to Hawaii. As some of the popular history of Reiki consists of Takata's fabrications[1], Hayashi is often considered to be Usui's chief disciple and the second Grand Master of Reiki history.
In 1940, Hayashi performed harakiri rather than join the war.
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