Hayashi Tadataka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese noble
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Place of Birth: Edo, Japan
About Hayashi Tadataka
- Hayashi Tadataka (? ??, August 26, 1848 – January 22, 1941) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Jozai Domain.
- Later in life, he was also known by his style, Ichimu (??).
- During the Boshin War of 1868, Hayashi led his domain's forces in support of the armies of the former shogun, and then the Ouetsu Reppan Domei.
- Unlike the Tokugawa forces which went on to Ezo, Hayashi surrendered willingly when he received word that the Tokugawa family was to be granted a fief in Shizuoka.
- During the Meiji period he worked in various occupations (even as a clerk for a business in Hakodate), before working for the government.
- In the Meiji period, his family was ennobled as part of the kazoku system.
- For a time he also served at Tosho-gu in Nikko.
- Hayashi lived well into the 20th century, and was famous as "the last daimyo".
- He died in early 1941, in an apartment run by his daughter Mitsu. When asked for a jisei on the day he died, he is reported to have said, "I had one in 1868.
- Not now." (?????????????) Hayashi appears as a character in Ikenami Shotaro's novel Bakumatsu Yugekitai.
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