Hayashi Tadataka

Infobox_Officeholder | name= Hayashi Tadataka
nationality=Japanese
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caption=Hayashi Tadataka in 1868
order=4th Lord of Jōzai
term_start=1867
term_end=1868
predecessor=Hayashi Tadakata
successor=none
birth_date=birth date|1848|8|26|mf=y
birth_place=Edo, Japan
death_date=death date and age|1941|1|22|1848|8|26|mf=y
death_place=Tokyo, Japan
spouse= Kojima Chisenihongo|Hayashi Tadataka|林忠崇| (August 26, 1848-January 22, 1941) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Jōzai Domain. Later in life, he was also known by his style, nihongo|Ichimu|一夢|. During the Boshin War of 1868, Hayashi led his domain's forces in support of the armies of the former shogun, and then the Northern Alliance. 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 era he worked in various occupations (even as a clerk for a business in Hakodate), before working for the government. In the Meiji era, his family was ennobled as part of the "kazoku" system. For a time he also served at Toshogu Shrine 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 death poem, he is reported to have said, "In the Boshin [War] I had one. I don't have one now."

Hayashi appears as a character in Ikenami Shōtarō's novel "Bakumatsu Yūgekitai".

References

*Yamakawa Kenjirō (1933). "Aizu Boshin senshi". Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai.
*Nakamura Akihiko (2000). "Dappan daimyo no Boshinsensō: Kazusa Jōzai hanshu Hayashi Tadataka no shōgai". Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.