Tadamasa Hayashi

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Tadamasa Hayashi (林 忠正, Tadamasa Hayashi^? 1853-1906) was a Japanese art dealer who introduced traditional Japanese art such as ukiyo-e to Europe.

Tadamasa was born to a family of Physician the Nagasaki family. When he was still a child, he was adopted to the Hayashi family, an upper class samurai of Toyama-han. He then went to attend the University of Tokyo. In 1878, he decided to go to Paris, as a translator to seek a new life abroad. In Paris, he began a career as Japanese art dealer.

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• http://www.manabi-takaoka.jp/03/jpn/category/detail/75/1/detail.html (Japanese)
• http://www.tym.ed.jp/kokusai/yukari/hayasi.html (Japanese)