Hayashi

Family name
name = Hayashi


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pronunciation = Hayashi
meaning = woods
region = Japanese
origin = Japanese
related names = Kobayashi
footnotes = [ [http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files ] ]

"Hayashi" (, literally "woods"), is a common Japanese surname.

People named Hayashi include:
*Asuca Hayashi (singer)
*Chushiro Hayashi (astrophysicist)
*Hayashi Fubo (author)
*Hayashi Fumiko (author, poet)
*Hayashi Fusao (author)
*Hayashi Hidesada (retainer to Oda clan)
*Ikuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
*Joe Hayashi (Japanese-American World War II soldier)
*Kaz Hayashi (professional wrestler)
*Masumi Hayashi (murderer)
*Masumi Hayashi (photographer)
*Hayashi Narinaga (samurai general)
*Hayashi Senjuro (former Prime Minister of Japan)
*Shizuya Hayashi (Japanese-American World War II soldier)
*Tadahiko Hayashi (photographer)
*Hayashi Tadasu (diplomat)
*Hayashi Tadataka (1848-1941), daimyo
*Takanobu Hayashi (photographer)
*Teruo Hayashi (martial artist and founder of Hayashi-ha karate)
*Tsuruichi Hayashi (1873–1935), mathematician
*Yasuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
*Yoshiki Hayashi (musician)

Hayashi is also
*The name of a former samurai clan, the Hayashi clan, several members of which served hereditarily as foreign policy advisors in the Tokugawa shogunate
*The daimyō family of Jōzai han
*The name of one of the four go houses in the Edo period
*A dish consisting of stewed beef and onions in gravy: Hayashi rice
*Hayashi (music), the term for a musical accompanist section, usually consisting primarily of percussion, in traditional Japanese theatre and dance.

References

ee also

* Japanese name