Hayashi
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Hayashi is a common Japanese
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Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
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A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
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People
- Asuka Hayashi (singer)
- Chūshirō HayashiChushiro Hayashiwas a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him.He earned his B.Sc in physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1942. He then worked as a research associate under Hideki Yukawa at Kyoto University...
(astrophysicist) - Hayashi FuboHayashi Fubowas the pen-name of a novelist in the early Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Hasegawa Kaitarō. He wrote under 3 different pen names, each with a unique personality, and caused a sensation with the sheer brilliance of his fiction, non-fiction and translations....
(author) - Hayashi Fumiko (author, poet)
- Fumio HayashiFumio Hayashiis a Japanese economist. As of October 2009, he is a professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. One of the most influential Japanese economists, Hayashi was awarded the inaugural Nakahara Prize in 1995....
(economist) - Hayashi FusaoHayashi Fusaowas the Pen name of a Japanese novelist and literary critic in Shōwa period Japan. He is known for his early works in the proletarian literature movement, although he later became a strong ultranationalist...
(author) - Hayashi Gonsuke (diplomat)
- Hayashi HidesadaHayashi Hidesadawas a Japanese samurai and retainer of Oda clan, who lived during the Sengoku period. He was also known as . His tsūshō was , and his court title was Sado no Kami.-Biography:...
(retainer to Oda clanOda clanThe was a family of Japanese daimyo who were to become an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they had the climax of their fame under Oda Nobunaga and fell from the spotlight soon after, several branches of the family would continue on as daimyo...
) - Ikuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- Isao HayashiIsao Hayashiwas a Japanese popular music and military music singer and composer. He took part in the Japan's famous year-end show Kōhaku Uta Gassen 11 times. One of well-known songs composed by him is the military song , which propaganda vehicles of uyoku dantai have aired in Japan.Hayashi was born in...
(singer) - Joe HayashiJoe HayashiJoe J. Hayashi was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
(Japanese-American World War II soldier) - Kaz HayashiKaz HayashiKazuhiro "Kaz" Hayashi is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is working for All Japan Pro Wrestling. He is also the head booker for the company's junior division.-Career:...
(professional wrestler) - Masumi HayashiMasumi Hayashi (poisoner)is a Japanese woman convicted of putting poison in a pot of curry being served at a 1998 summer festival in the Sonobe district of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.-Summary:...
(murderer) - Masumi HayashiMasumi Hayashi (photographer)Dr. Masumi Hayashi was an American photographer and artist who taught art at Cleveland State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, for 24 years...
(photographer) - Mei Hayashi (author,musician)
- Hayashi NarinagaHayashi Narinagawas a busho during the Sengoku period, retainer of the Mōri clan and was koku-jin-ryoshu of Southern Bingo Province. He held many jobs including karō serving Mōri Motonari and Môri Mototoshi mostly in dealings with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also a bugyō under Mōri Terumoto. From Hideyoshi he...
(samurai general) - Hayashi Senjuro (former Prime Minister of Japan)
- Hayashi ShiheiHayashi Shiheiwas a Japanese military scholar and a retainer of the Sendai Domain.His name is sometimes misread as Rin Shihei....
, Edo period author - Shizuya HayashiShizuya HayashiShizuya Hayashi was a soldier in the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for actions in Cerasuolo, Italy during World War II. He distinguished himself by taking over a German position despite superior numbers...
(Japanese-American World War II soldier) - Tadahiko HayashiTadahiko Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary and portraiture.-Youth and early career:...
(photographer) - Hayashi TadasuHayashi Tadasuwas a career diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji period Japan. Baron Matsumoto Ryōjun, the onetime private physician to Tokugawa Yoshinobu and founder of the Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps, was Hayashi’s brother.- Early life :...
(diplomat) - Hayashi TadatakaHayashi Tadatakawas a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Jōzai Domain. Later in life, he was also known by his style, . During the Boshin War of 1868, Hayashi led his domain's forces in support of the armies of the former shogun, and then the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei...
(1848-1941), daimyoDaimyois a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings... - Takanobu HayashiTakanobu Hayashiis a Japanese photographer.Hayashi was born in Dalian, China, in 1946, but his family then quickly moved to Japan, first to Beppu and then to Kyoto. He worked in a darkroom for a year after graduating from high school, and in 1965 moved to Tokyo, where he studied at the Tokyo College of Photography...
(photographer) - Teruo Hayashi (martial artist and founder of Hayashi-ha karate)
- Tsuruichi HayashiTsuruichi Hayashiwas a Japanese mathematician and historian of Japanese mathematics. He was born in Tokushima, Japan.He was the founder of the Tohoku Mathematical Journal....
(1873–1935), mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change.... - Yasuo Hayashi, one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
- Yoshihide HayashiYoshihide Hayashi- Notes :...
(A general in the Imperial Japanese ArmyImperial Japanese Army-Foundation:During the Meiji Restoration, the military forces loyal to the Emperor were samurai drawn primarily from the loyalist feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū...
during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.} - Yoshiki Hayashi (musician)
- Yasunori HayashiYasunori Hayashiis a Japanese neuroscientist who was born in Aichi and grew up in Tokyo. He is leading his research group in RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.- Education and research history :*1984–1990 MD, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine...
(Japanese Neuroscientist) - Hayashi Yasusada, samurai in the Boshin War
Other
- The name of a former samurai clan, the Hayashi clan (disambiguation), several members of which served hereditarily as foreign policy advisors in the Tokugawa shogunateTokugawa shogunateThe Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the , was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city, Edo, which is now called Tokyo, after the name was...
- The daimyō family of Jōzai Domain (Jōzai han)
- The name of one of the four go housesFour go housesIn the history of go in Japan, the Four go houses were the four academies of Go instituted, supported, and controlled by the state, at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate. At roughly the same time shogi was organised into three houses. Here 'house' implies institution run on the recognised...
in the Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate.... - A dish consisting of stewed beef and onions in gravy: Hayashi riceHayashi riceHashed beef rice or Hayashi rice is a dish popular in Japan as a Western-style dish. It usually contains beef, onions, and button mushrooms, in a thick demi-glace sauce which often contains red wine and tomato sauce. This sauce is served atop or alongside steamed rice. The sauce is sometimes...
, the term for a musical accompanist section, usually consisting primarily of percussion, in traditional Japanese theatre and dance.