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Japanese art dealer (–)

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

Tadamasa was born to the Nagasaki family of physicians. When he was still a child, he was adopted into the Hayashi family, an upper-class samurai family of Toyama-han. He then attended the University of Tokyo.

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In , he went to Paris as a translator to seek a new life abroad. In Paris, he began a career as Japanese art dealer.

Hayashi provided the text for the May edition of Paris Illustré. Vincent van Gogh traced the figure on the title page for his painting The Courtesan.^[1] In 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 ^[3]

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