 After World War II, together with Ango Sakaguchi, Hayashi coined the term Buraiha in 1947 to describe the new trend in post-war Japanese literature.Along with hundreds of other writers, he was purged by the American occupation authorities and was not allowed to publish until the end of occupation in 1952.His wife, Shigeko, who had been suffering from mental instability for several years, committed suicide at their home in Kamakura in 1952.