Tadamasa Hayashi

Tadamasa Hayashi

Tadamasa Hayashi (林 忠正, 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.

the front of an old French magazine showing a courtesan or oiran or 'geisha girl' in a colourful kimono her hair fantasically done up with cherry or almond blossom to the left
Title page of Paris Illustré "Le Japon' vol. 4, May 1886, no. 45-46

He provided the text for the May 1886 edition of Paris Illustré. Vincent van Gogh traced the figure on the title page for his painting The Courtesan.[1] In 1900 he was a general commissioner of the Japanese art section at the World 's Fair in Paris.[2] He also worked with Dr. George Frederick Kunz and Heber R. Bishop in writing and producing the catalog to the famous jade collection given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1902.[3]

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  1. ↑ The Courtesan (1887), oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
  2. ↑ J.-L. Ferrier and Y. Le Pichon Art of the 20th Century: A year-by-year chronicle of painting, architecture, and sculpture. Chêne-Hachette, 1999, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Bishop Collection, Heber R. Bishop, George Frederick Kunz, Stephen W. Bushell, Robert Lilley, and Tadamasa Hayashi. 1906. The Bishop collection. Investigations and studies in jade. New York: Priv. Print. [The De Vinne Press]. OCLC: 14097767.

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