Hayashi Tadasu
| Hayashi Tadasu | |
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Count Hayashi Tadasu c. 1902
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April 11, 1850 Sakura, Chiba, Japan |
| Died | July 10, 1913 (aged 63) Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Diplomat, Cabinet Minister |
Count Hayashi Tadasu, GCVO (林 董?, April 11, 1850 – July 10, 1913) was a career diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji period Japan.
Hayashi was born in Sakura city, Shimōsa Province (present-day Chiba prefecture) ., as the son of Satō Taizen, a physician practicing "Dutch medicine" for the Sakura Domain. He was adopted as a child by Hayashi Dokai, a physician in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, from whom he received the family name "Hayashi", but he sometimes referred to himself as "Satō Tosaburō". He learned English at the Hepburn Academy in Yokohama (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University).
From 1866 to 1868, Hayashi studied in Great Britain at University College School and King's College London as one of fourteen young Japanese students (including Kikuchi Dairoku) sent by the Tokugawa government on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.
Hayashi returned home in the midst of the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, and joined with Tokugawa loyalists led by Enomoto Takeaki, whom he accompanied to Hokkaidō with the remnants of the Tokugawa fleet. He was captured by Imperial forces after the final defeat of the Republic of Ezo at the Battle of Hakodate and imprisoned in Yokohama.
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