Tadahiko Hayashi
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was a Japanese
photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary (particularly genre scenes of the period immediately after the war) and portraiture.
(since 2003 part of Shūnan
), Yamaguchi
(Japan) on 5 March 1918, to a family running a photographic studio (Hayashi Shashin-kan). The boy's mother, Ishi Hayashi was an accomplished photographer, particularly of portraits, taught by her father; his father, Shin'ichi Hayashi was a mediocre photographer and a spendthrift; the boy's grandfather forced the parents to divorce and the boy grew up with his mother and surrounded by photography. He did well at school, where he took photographs.
Hayashi graduated from school in 1935, and his mother determined that he would apprentice himself to the photographer Shōichi Nakayama . Nakayama was based in Ashiya
, Hyōgo
, but had a second studio in Shinsaibashi
, Osaka
. Hayashi did much running of errands between the two. On one occasion he passed the Ashiya studio of the photographer Iwata Nakayama
late at night and was reinspired in photography by his realization of the effort Nakayama was putting in. A year later he contracted tuberculosis
and returned to Tokuyama, where he enthusiastically practiced photography while recuperating, and participated in the group Neko-no-me-kai under the photographer Sakae Tamura
using the name Jōmin Hayashi .
In 1937 Hayashi went to Tokyo
, where he studied at the Oriental School of Photography , again under Tamura. On his graduation the following year, he returned to Tokuyama, but “spent a year in dissipation, drinking heavily every night”. Yet he managed to retain his interest and prowess in photography. In 1939 his family decided to make a final allowance to him of ¥200, which he quickly wasted in Tokyo on food and drink. Tamura got him a job in a developing and printing firm in Yokohama
, where he worked at both printmaking and commercial photography. A few months later he moved to Tōkyō Kōgeisha in Ginza
, where he soon had an unexpected opportunity to demonstrate his unusual command, gained in Yokohama, of flash illumination. Demand for his services increased. He married Akiko Sasaki , from Tokuyama.
In 1940 Hayashi's photographs appeared in the photography magazine Shashin Shūhō, and the next year also the women's magazine Fujin Kōron, and Asahi Camera
. The couple had their first child, a son, Yasuhiko .
In 1942 Hayashi went to the Japanese embassy in Beijing
, with the North China News Photography Association , which he had just cofounded. While in China he did a lot of work with what was then regarded as a wide-angle lens
; this led to his nickname of Waido no Chū-san .
Hayashi's photographs were published in the women's magazines Fujin Kōron and Shinjoen and the photography magazines Shashin Bunka and Shashin Shūhō. The couple had their second son, Jun , in 1943.
later termed him “[t]he first professional photographer in Japan”. He also found time to remarry in 1946, his second wife being Kane Watanabe ; they had a son, Hidehiko , in 1947.
Always gregarious, Hayashi had friends and acquaintances among the buraiha
(dissolute writers), and his portraits of Osamu Dazai
and Sakunosuke Oda, both taken in the bar, are now famous. At the end of that year, the literary magazine Shōsetsu Shinchō published the first of Hayashi's series of portraits, titled Bunshi (literati), of chūkan bungaku , other writers and figures close to the world of literature, in its January 1948 issue; the series would continue until 1949 and was later collected into an anthology. Hayashi's portraits show their subjects in context, and the combination of their subject matter and the method by which he took them — by his own account intermediate (chūkan) between the tense, decisive style of Ken Domon
and the relaxed, informal style of Ihei Kimura
— led them to be termed “intermediate photographs” . The series of portraits that he was commissioned to take remained fresh; that of an unposed (and unsuspecting) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is particularly famous.
Meanwhile, his portraits of orphans and the desperate but sometimes pleasurable life of the city were run in camera magazines, general-interest magazines, and more surprisingly in Fujin Kōron; these too would be anthologized, first in 1980 in a book, Kasutori Jidai , that has a lasting reputation as a historic document.
By 1954 Hayashi and the photographers Shōtarō Akiyama
and Kira Sugiyama
were sharing a studio in the basement of the Nihon Seimei Building, a dirty old building (subsequently demolished) in Hibiya
(Chiyoda-ku
).
In the early 1950s, a strong trend toward photographing unaltered reality was fueled by manifestos in camera magazines by Ken Domon and others; Hayashi bucked this by arranging his photographs so that the whole and every part would form a flawless composition, staging if this were necessary. For this reason he is commonly regarded as very unlike a photographer such as Ihei Kimura.
In 1950 his fourth son was born.
Through this period Hayashi was busily cofounding and participating in various organizations of photographers. Together with Eiichi Akaho , Shōtarō Akiyama
, Ryōsuke Ishizu
, Yōichi Midorikawa
and Shōji Ueda
, he was a founding member of Ginryūsha in 1947; the group would meet once every two months, for discussion and drinking. A year later he joined Ken Domon
, Ihei Kimura
, Shigeru Tamura
and others in founding the Photographers' Group , which would later become the Japan Photographers Association . In 1953 he was a founding member of the photography section of Nika Society .
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; his photographs of the trips appeared in magazines. For decades thereafter they were little known, but forty were exhibited in a major posthumous retrospective, where they reminded viewers that Hayashi did not need to stage and excelled at the snapshot too; though his photographs still contrasted with Kimura's in the subjects' awareness of being photographed.
He also appeared in the film Jūninin no shashinka , directed by Hiroshi Teshigawara .
Two years later, the first of Hayashi's books was published: Shōsetsu no furusato (The village settings of stories) for which Hayashi traveled around Japan to the settings of novels and short stories, looking for and sometimes staging the scenes that are echoed in the fiction. It would be seven more years before his second book was published (a pace that was normal at the time), and the photographs that had made him famous in the kasutori period would only be anthologized from the 1980s.
Hayashi's middle age had its setbacks. His wife died in 1961, his tuberculosis recurred in 1970, and his second son Jun died in 1973. But he continued to produce books, notably the lavish Nihon no gaka 108-nin, portraits of and representative works by 108 Japanese painters, which won both the Mainichi Arts Prize and the Japan Photographers Association's Annual Prize a year after its publication in 1977.
In the early 1980s Hayashi traveled around Japan, taking photographs for a number of photo books. However, in 1985 he announced that he had cancer of the liver. This did not stop him from working: he embarked on work for a book of photographs for a book on the Tōkaidō
, suggesting to Yōichi Midorikawa
that Midorikawa should do another on the San'yōdō
. Hayashi survived publication of his own book by two months; Midorikawa's book only came out a year later.
From 1980 until 1989 Hayashi was principal of the photographic academy Nihon Shashin Gakuen .
Hayashi's works are displayed by the Shunan City Museum of Art and History in Shūnan
, Yamaguchi
.
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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...
photographer noted for a wide range of work including documentary (particularly genre scenes of the period immediately after the war) and portraiture.
Youth and early career
Hayashi was born in Saiwai-chō, TokuyamaTokuyama, Yamaguchi
was a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.On April 21, 2003 Tokuyama was merged with the city of Shinnan'yō, the town of Kumage, from Kumage District, and the town of Kano, from Tsuno District, to form the new city of Shūnan....
(since 2003 part of Shūnan
Shunan, Yamaguchi
is a city located in east central Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 21, 2003, merging two former cities, Tokuyama and Shinnan'yō and two towns, Kano and Kumage....
), Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Yamaguchi, in the center of the prefecture. The largest city, however, is Shimonoseki.- History :...
(Japan) on 5 March 1918, to a family running a photographic studio (Hayashi Shashin-kan). The boy's mother, Ishi Hayashi was an accomplished photographer, particularly of portraits, taught by her father; his father, Shin'ichi Hayashi was a mediocre photographer and a spendthrift; the boy's grandfather forced the parents to divorce and the boy grew up with his mother and surrounded by photography. He did well at school, where he took photographs.
Hayashi graduated from school in 1935, and his mother determined that he would apprentice himself to the photographer Shōichi Nakayama . Nakayama was based in Ashiya
Ashiya, Hyogo
is a city founded on November 10, 1940 located in Hyōgo, Japan, between the cities of Osaka and Kobe.-Demographics:As of 2009, the city has an estimated population of 93,094 and the density of 5,030 persons per km². The total area is 18.47 km²...
, Hyōgo
Hyogo Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region on Honshū island. The capital is Kobe.The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.- History :...
, but had a second studio in Shinsaibashi
Shinsaibashi
Shinsaibashi is a district in the Chūō-ku ward of Osaka, Japan and the city's main shopping area. It centers around Shinsaibashi-suji, a covered shopping street, that is north of Dōtonbori and parallel and east of Mido-suji street. Associated with Shinsaibashi, and west of Mido-suji street, is...
, Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
. Hayashi did much running of errands between the two. On one occasion he passed the Ashiya studio of the photographer Iwata Nakayama
Iwata Nakayama
was a renowned Japanese photographer.-Biography:He was born in Yanagawa, in Fukuoka. His father was an inventor who had a patent of a fire extingusher in Japan. Iwata migrated to Tokyo and was educated in a private school Kyohoku-Chugakkou. After graduated that school, he entered Tokyo University...
late at night and was reinspired in photography by his realization of the effort Nakayama was putting in. A year later he contracted tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
and returned to Tokuyama, where he enthusiastically practiced photography while recuperating, and participated in the group Neko-no-me-kai under the photographer Sakae Tamura
Sakae Tamura (photographer)
was a Japanese photographer, prominent in the years before the war.Born in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Tamura graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography and entered Oriental in 1928 and became editor of Photo Times. He was an active contributor to the magazine Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū and in the...
using the name Jōmin Hayashi .
In 1937 Hayashi went to Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, where he studied at the Oriental School of Photography , again under Tamura. On his graduation the following year, he returned to Tokuyama, but “spent a year in dissipation, drinking heavily every night”. Yet he managed to retain his interest and prowess in photography. In 1939 his family decided to make a final allowance to him of ¥200, which he quickly wasted in Tokyo on food and drink. Tamura got him a job in a developing and printing firm in Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
, where he worked at both printmaking and commercial photography. A few months later he moved to Tōkyō Kōgeisha in Ginza
Ginza
is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.It is known as an upscale area of Tokyo with numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses. Ginza is recognized as one of the most...
, where he soon had an unexpected opportunity to demonstrate his unusual command, gained in Yokohama, of flash illumination. Demand for his services increased. He married Akiko Sasaki , from Tokuyama.
In 1940 Hayashi's photographs appeared in the photography magazine Shashin Shūhō, and the next year also the women's magazine Fujin Kōron, and Asahi Camera
Asahi Camera
is a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.The first issue was that for April 1926. It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun....
. The couple had their first child, a son, Yasuhiko .
In 1942 Hayashi went to the Japanese embassy in Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, with the North China News Photography Association , which he had just cofounded. While in China he did a lot of work with what was then regarded as a wide-angle lens
Wide-angle lens
From a design perspective, a wide angle lens is one that projects a substantially larger image circle than would be typical for a standard design lens of the same focal length; this enables either large tilt & shift movements with a view camera, or lenses with wide fields of view.More informally,...
; this led to his nickname of Waido no Chū-san .
Hayashi's photographs were published in the women's magazines Fujin Kōron and Shinjoen and the photography magazines Shashin Bunka and Shashin Shūhō. The couple had their second son, Jun , in 1943.
The rotgut era
Hayashi was still in Beijing at the end of the war. He returned to Japan with Jun Yoshida in 1946. The family photo studio had been destroyed, but with Yoshida he set up a new studio, busily churning out photographs for twenty or more kasutori magazines (cheap, sensational and short-lived magazines) every month. As Hayashi would later describe it, Yoshida would tell publishers that he photographed women, and Hayashi (later renowned for his portraits of men) would tell them that he photographed anything other than women. The ploy seems to have worked: he was frenetically busy, and the photographer Shōji UedaShoji Ueda
Ueda was born on 27 March 1913 in Sakai , Tottori. His father was a manufacturer and seller of geta; Shōji was the only child who survived infancy...
later termed him “[t]he first professional photographer in Japan”. He also found time to remarry in 1946, his second wife being Kane Watanabe ; they had a son, Hidehiko , in 1947.
Always gregarious, Hayashi had friends and acquaintances among the buraiha
Buraiha
The were a group of dissolute writers who expressed the aimlessness and identity crisis of post-World War II Japan. While not comprising a true literary school, the Buraiha writers were linked together by a similar approach to subject matter and literary style. The main characters in works of the...
(dissolute writers), and his portraits of Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai
was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan.-Biography:-Early life:Dazai was born , the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner in Kanagi, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture...
and Sakunosuke Oda, both taken in the bar, are now famous. At the end of that year, the literary magazine Shōsetsu Shinchō published the first of Hayashi's series of portraits, titled Bunshi (literati), of chūkan bungaku , other writers and figures close to the world of literature, in its January 1948 issue; the series would continue until 1949 and was later collected into an anthology. Hayashi's portraits show their subjects in context, and the combination of their subject matter and the method by which he took them — by his own account intermediate (chūkan) between the tense, decisive style of Ken Domon
Ken Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
and the relaxed, informal style of Ihei Kimura
Ihei Kimura
Born on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
— led them to be termed “intermediate photographs” . The series of portraits that he was commissioned to take remained fresh; that of an unposed (and unsuspecting) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is particularly famous.
Meanwhile, his portraits of orphans and the desperate but sometimes pleasurable life of the city were run in camera magazines, general-interest magazines, and more surprisingly in Fujin Kōron; these too would be anthologized, first in 1980 in a book, Kasutori Jidai , that has a lasting reputation as a historic document.
By 1954 Hayashi and the photographers Shōtarō Akiyama
Shotaro Akiyama
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
and Kira Sugiyama
Kira Sugiyama
was a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:*Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8....
were sharing a studio in the basement of the Nihon Seimei Building, a dirty old building (subsequently demolished) in Hibiya
Hibiya
is a geographic name covering a part of Chiyoda ward . The zone along the Hibiya Street from Yūrakuchō to Uchisaiwaichō is Hibiya district. There are many residence indications, but some indications using this word, Hibiya, like Hibiya Park and Hibiya Station...
(Chiyoda-ku
Chiyoda, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Chiyoda ward. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 people per km², making it by far the least populated of the special wards...
).
In the early 1950s, a strong trend toward photographing unaltered reality was fueled by manifestos in camera magazines by Ken Domon and others; Hayashi bucked this by arranging his photographs so that the whole and every part would form a flawless composition, staging if this were necessary. For this reason he is commonly regarded as very unlike a photographer such as Ihei Kimura.
In 1950 his fourth son was born.
Through this period Hayashi was busily cofounding and participating in various organizations of photographers. Together with Eiichi Akaho , Shōtarō Akiyama
Shotaro Akiyama
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Ryōsuke Ishizu
Ryosuke Ishizu
was a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Yōichi Midorikawa
Yoichi Midorikawa
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
and Shōji Ueda
Shoji Ueda
Ueda was born on 27 March 1913 in Sakai , Tottori. His father was a manufacturer and seller of geta; Shōji was the only child who survived infancy...
, he was a founding member of Ginryūsha in 1947; the group would meet once every two months, for discussion and drinking. A year later he joined Ken Domon
Ken Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Ihei Kimura
Ihei Kimura
Born on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
, Shigeru Tamura
Shigeru Tamura (photographer)
For a younger photographer of the same name, see Akihide Tamura. was a Japanese photographer notable for his work in fashion and photojournalism....
and others in founding the Photographers' Group , which would later become the Japan Photographers Association . In 1953 he was a founding member of the photography section of Nika Society .
America and later work
In 1955 Hayashi accompanied Keiko Takahashi , Japan's contender, to the Miss UniverseMiss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
contest in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
; his photographs of the trips appeared in magazines. For decades thereafter they were little known, but forty were exhibited in a major posthumous retrospective, where they reminded viewers that Hayashi did not need to stage and excelled at the snapshot too; though his photographs still contrasted with Kimura's in the subjects' awareness of being photographed.
He also appeared in the film Jūninin no shashinka , directed by Hiroshi Teshigawara .
Two years later, the first of Hayashi's books was published: Shōsetsu no furusato (The village settings of stories) for which Hayashi traveled around Japan to the settings of novels and short stories, looking for and sometimes staging the scenes that are echoed in the fiction. It would be seven more years before his second book was published (a pace that was normal at the time), and the photographs that had made him famous in the kasutori period would only be anthologized from the 1980s.
Hayashi's middle age had its setbacks. His wife died in 1961, his tuberculosis recurred in 1970, and his second son Jun died in 1973. But he continued to produce books, notably the lavish Nihon no gaka 108-nin, portraits of and representative works by 108 Japanese painters, which won both the Mainichi Arts Prize and the Japan Photographers Association's Annual Prize a year after its publication in 1977.
In the early 1980s Hayashi traveled around Japan, taking photographs for a number of photo books. However, in 1985 he announced that he had cancer of the liver. This did not stop him from working: he embarked on work for a book of photographs for a book on the Tōkaidō
Tokaido (road)
The ' was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period, connecting Edo to Kyoto in Japan. Unlike the inland and less heavily travelled Nakasendō, the Tōkaidō travelled along the sea coast of eastern Honshū, hence the route's name....
, suggesting to Yōichi Midorikawa
Yoichi Midorikawa
is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
that Midorikawa should do another on the San'yōdō
San'yodo
is a Japanese term denoting both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it. The San'yōdō corresponds for the most part with the modern conception of the San'yō region,San'yō translates to "the sunlight-side of a mountain", while dō, depending on the context, can mean...
. Hayashi survived publication of his own book by two months; Midorikawa's book only came out a year later.
From 1980 until 1989 Hayashi was principal of the photographic academy Nihon Shashin Gakuen .
Hayashi's works are displayed by the Shunan City Museum of Art and History in Shūnan
Shunan, Yamaguchi
is a city located in east central Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 21, 2003, merging two former cities, Tokuyama and Shinnan'yō and two towns, Kano and Kumage....
, Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan in the Chūgoku region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Yamaguchi, in the center of the prefecture. The largest city, however, is Shimonoseki.- History :...
.
Solo exhibitions
- "Amami-ōshima" , Chūkō Garō (TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
), 1954. - "Taibei shashinten" , MatsuyaMatsuya Co.Matsuya Co., Ltd. is a Japanese department store in Tokyo. Founded in 1869, Two stores are in Ginza and Asakusa .-External links:...
(GinzaGinzais a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.It is known as an upscale area of Tokyo with numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses. Ginza is recognized as one of the most...
, Tokyo), 1955 - "Shōsetsu no furusato" , Konishiroku Photo Gallery (Tokyo), 1957
- "Nihon no sakka-ten" , TōkyūTokyu GroupThe of companies centers on the Tokyu Corporation railway company, which links Tokyo and its suburbs. Many companies in the group are designed to enhance the value of the Tokyu rail network. In addition to the railroad system, the group includes other companies in transportation, real-estate,...
(ShibuyaShibuya, Tokyois one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, it has an estimated population of 208,371 and a population density of 13,540 persons per km². The total area is 15.11 km²....
, Tokyo), 1971 - "Kasutori jidai" , Fuji Photo Salon) (Tokyo and OsakaOsakais a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
, 1980 - "Nagasaki, umi to jūjika" , Contax Gallery (Tokyo and FukuokaFukuokaFukuoka most often refers to the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture.It can also refer to:-Locations:* Fukuoka, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan* Fukuoka, Toyama, a town in Toyama Prefecture, Japan...
), 1980 - "Sekai no machi kara" , Shinjuku Olympus Gallery (ShinjukuShinjuku, Tokyois one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population...
, Tokyo), 1980; Wakita Gallery (Nagoya), 1981 - "Wakaki shura-tachi no sato: Chōshūji" , Contax Gallery (Tokyo and Fukuoka), 1981
- "Nihon no iemoto" , Kyocera Contax Salon (Ginza), 1983
- "Nagasaki" , Obihiro Camera Gallery (ObihiroObihiro, Hokkaidois a city located in Tokachi, Hokkaidō, Japan. Obihiro is the only city in the Tokachi area. The next most populous municipality in Tokachi is the town of Otofuke, with less than a third of Obihiro's population. The city has approximately 500 foreign residents . The city contains the headquarters...
), 1983 - "Saigō Takamori" , Fukuoka Art MuseumFukuoka Art MuseumFukuoka Art Museum is an encyclopedic art museum in Fukuoka, Japan. It contains a notable collection of Asian art and exhibits various temporary exhibitions - in November 2010 it hosted a large exhibition of Marc Chagall's work.-External links:*...
(Fukuoka), 1984 - "Arishihi no sakka-tachi" , Pentax Forum (Tokyo), 1984
- "Bunshi no jidai" , Fuji Photo Gallery (Tokyo), 1986
- "Chaya" , Kyocera Contax Salon (Ginza), 1986
- "Dentō to bunka e no manazashi" , Wakō Hall (Ginza, Tokyo), 1988
- "Yomigaetta heiwa no naka de" , Fuji Photo Gallery (Tokyo), 1988
- "Hayashi Tadahiko 50-nen shashin sōshūten" , Tokuyama-shi Bunka Kaikan (TokuyamaTokuyama, Yamaguchiwas a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.On April 21, 2003 Tokuyama was merged with the city of Shinnan'yō, the town of Kumage, from Kumage District, and the town of Kano, from Tsuno District, to form the new city of Shūnan....
), 1988; Keihan department store (MoriguchiMoriguchi, Osakais a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan which serves as a satellite town to Osaka.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 146,524 and the density of 11,510 persons per km²...
, Osaka), 1989; Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (YokohamaYokohamais the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
), 1990 - "Hayashi Tadahiko no jidai" , Shinjuku Konica Plaza (Shinjuku, Tokyo), 1990
- "Tōkaidō o toru" , Wakō Hall (Ginza, Tokyo); also Tokuyama and Osaka, 1991
- "Hayashi Tadahiko sakuhinten" , two-part exhibition at JCII Photo Salon (Tokyo), 1991
- "Jidai no shashu" , Shimonoseki City Art Museum (ShimonosekiShimonoseki, Yamaguchiis a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is at the southwestern tip of Honshū, facing the Tsushima Strait and also Kitakyushu across the Kanmon Straits....
), 1991 - "Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai" / "Tadahiko Hayashi", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of PhotographyTokyo Metropolitan Museum of PhotographyThe is an art museum focused on photography. The museum was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is located in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo...
(EbisuEbisu, Tokyois a neighborhood in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Conveniently near Roppongi and central Shibuya, Ebisu is easily accessed by the JR Yamanote and Hibiya lines via Ebisu Station...
, Tokyo), 1993 - "Kasutori jidai" , Fuji Film Square (Ginza, Tokyo), 2007
- "Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai" , Keihan Gallery (MoriguchiMoriguchi, Osakais a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan which serves as a satellite town to Osaka.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 146,524 and the density of 11,510 persons per km²...
, Osaka), 2009 - "Shinjuku, jidai no katachi: Kasutori jidai, bunshi no jidai" , Shinjuku Historical Museum (Shinjuku, Tokyo), 2009.
Books by and about Hayashi
- Shōsetsu no furusato . Tokyo: Chūō Kōronsha, 1957.
- Karā Nihon fūkei . Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1964.
- Nihon no sakka: Hayashi Tadanobu shashin . Tokyo: Shufu-to-seikatsu-sha, 1971.
- Nihon no keieisha . Text by Daizō Kusayanagi . Tokyo: Daiyamondo-sha, 1975.
- Jinbutsu shashin . Gendai Kamera Shinsho 50. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978. About how to photograph portraits.
- Nihon no gaka 108-nin . 2 vol. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1978. Photographs of painters and their works: a lavish, boxed production.
- Nagasaki: Umi to jūjika . Nihon no Kokoro 8. Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1980.
- Nihon no iemoto . Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1980.
- Kasutori jidai: Shōwa 21 nen, Tōkyō, Nihon . Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1980. With an essay by Junnosuke Yoshiyuki.
- Wakaki shura-tachi no sato: Chōshūji . Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1981.
- Hayashi Tadahiko . Shōwa Shashin: Zenshigoto 3. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1982. A survey of Hayashi's work.
- Tennonzan gohyaku rakanji: Ryōjusen shaka seppō zu . Tokyo: Gohyaku Rakanji, 1982.
- Shashin: Saigō Takamori . Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1983.
- Nihon no iemoto . Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1983. On the iemotoIemotoIemoto is a Japanese term used to refer to the founder or current head master of a certain school of traditional Japanese art...
of Japan. - Nihon no misaki . Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1985.
- Bunshi no jidai . Tokyo: Asahi, 1986. ISBN 4-02-255483-5. Black and white photographs taken much earlier.
- Chashitsu . Tokyo: Fujin Gahō, 1986.
- Kasutori jidai: Renzu ga mita Shōwa nijūnendai, Tōkyō . Asahi bunko. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1987. ISBN 4-02-260428-X. A reworking of the book of 1980 in bunkobonBunkobonIn Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
(miniature) format. - Bunshi no jidai . Asahi bunko. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1988. ISBN 4-02-260510-3. A reworking of the book of 1986 in bunkobonBunkobonIn Japan, bunkobon are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and portable.The great majority of bunkobon are A6 in size...
(miniature) format. - Ikyo Kōjitsu / To Spend Pleasant Days in a Foreign Land. Tokyo: BeeBooks, 1989.
- Tōkaidō . Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1990. ISBN 4-08-532028-9. Color photographs of landscapes along the TōkaidōTokaido (road)The ' was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period, connecting Edo to Kyoto in Japan. Unlike the inland and less heavily travelled Nakasendō, the Tōkaidō travelled along the sea coast of eastern Honshū, hence the route's name....
. - Hanseiki no danmen: Hayashi Tadahiko 50-nen shashin sōshūten . Yokohama: Hayashi Tadahiko 50-nen Shashin Sōshūten Jikkō Iinkai, 1990.
- Hayashi Tadahiko taidanshū: Shashin suru tabibito: Warera Kontakkusu nakama yori . Tokyo: Nippon Camera, 1991. ISBN 4-8179-2012-2.
- Hayashi Tadahiko shashin zenshū . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1992. ISBN 4-582-27725-X. A large anthology of Hayashi's works.
- Sanka . Sun Art, 1992. Photography of the works of Hiroki Oda .
- Zenkoku meichashitsu annai: Itsudemo haiken dekiru: Kokuhō kara meiseki made . Tokyo: Fujin Gahō, 1993. ISBN 4-573-40008-7.
- Kyō no chashitsu: Setouchi Jakuchō san to otozureru: Meisō to kataru cha no kokoro . Tokyo: Fujin Gahō, 1993. ISBN 4-573-40007-9. With Yoshikatsu Hayashi (the photographer's son).
- Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai: Hayashi Tadahiko no mita sengo: Kasutori, bunshi, soshite Amerika / Tadahiko Hayashi. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1993. The Japanese title means “The world of Tadahiko Hayashi: The postwar period that Tadahiko Hayashi saw: Kasutori, literati and America”; and this excellently produced exhibition catalogueExhibition catalogueThere are two types of exhibition catalogue : a printed list of exhibits at an art exhibition; and a directory of exhibitors at a trade fair or business-to-business event.-Art or museum exhibition catalogues:...
concentrates on these three areas of Hayashi's work. Captions and texts in English as well as Japanese. - Hayashi Tadahiko . Nihon no Shashinka. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998. ISBN 4-00-008365-1.
- Tōkaidō no tabi: Shashinshū / Journeys along the Tokaido. Tokyo: Wedge, 2006. ISBN 4-900594-91-1. Text by Yoshikatsu Hayashi (the photographer's son).
- Bunshi to shōsetsu no furusato / Bunshi. Tokyo: Pie, 2007. ISBN 978-4-89444-596-3. A collection of photographs of writers and also photographs taken in the locations of novels. Text and comments on each photograph in Japanese only; captions and some other material also in English.
- Kasutori no jidai / Kastori. Tokyo: Pie, 2007. ISBN 978-4-89444-597-0. Japan shortly after the end of the war. Text in Japanese only; captions also in English.
- Shinjuku, jidai no katachi: Kasutori jidai, bunshi no jidai . Tokyo: Shinjuku Historical Museum, 2009. Catalogue of an exhibition.
Other substantial book contributions
- Association to Establish the Japan Peace Museum, ed. Ginza to sensō / Ginza and the War. Tokyo: Atelier for Peace, 1986. ISBN 4-938365-04-9. Hayashi is one of ten photographers — the others are Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Shigeo HayashiShigeo Hayashiwas a Japanese photographer. After three years of army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the...
, Kōyō IshikawaKoyo Ishikawawas a renowned Japanese photographer. As an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, he was virtually the only person who pictured the immediate damages by the bombings of Tokyo in World War II under a strict regulation that prohibited civilians from taking pictures of war damages.-References:...
, Kōyō Kageyama, Shunkichi KikuchiShunkichi Kikuchiwas a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed in the Photography Division of Tokyo Kōgeisha and began his...
, Ihei KimuraIhei KimuraBorn on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
, Kōji MorookaKoji Morookawas a Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Minoru Ōki, and Maki Sekiguchi — who provide 340 photographs for this well-illustrated and large photographic history of GinzaGinzais a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.It is known as an upscale area of Tokyo with numerous department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses. Ginza is recognized as one of the most...
from 1937 to 1947. Captions and text in both Japanese and English. - (Joint work) Bunshi no shōzō hyakujūnin . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1990. Hayashi is one of five photographers — the others are Shōtarō AkiyamaShotaro Akiyamais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Hiroshi HamayaHiroshi Hamayawas a renowned Japanese photographer.-Books of Hamaya's works:*Senkō shashinjutsu . Ars Shashin Bunko. Tokyo: Ars, 1941.*Ura Nihon . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1957.*Henkyō no machi . Sekai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1957....
, and Ihei KimuraIhei KimuraBorn on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
. - Hiraki, Osamu, and Keiichi Takeuchi. Japan, a Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945–1964. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. ISBN 2-08-030463-1. Hayashi is one of eleven photographers whose works appear in this large book (the others are Ken DomonKen Domonis one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the twentieth century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary....
, Hiroshi HamayaHiroshi Hamayawas a renowned Japanese photographer.-Books of Hamaya's works:*Senkō shashinjutsu . Ars Shashin Bunko. Tokyo: Ars, 1941.*Ura Nihon . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1957.*Henkyō no machi . Sekai Shashinka Shirīzu. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1957....
, Eikoh HosoeEikoh Hosoeis a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality...
, Yasuhiro IshimotoYasuhiro IshimotoIshimoto was born on 14 June 1921 in San Francisco, California, where his parents were farmers. In 1924, the family left the United States and returned to his parents' hometown within present-day Tosa, in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan...
, Kikuji KawadaKikuji Kawadais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, Ihei KimuraIhei KimuraBorn on 12 December 1901 in Shitaya-ku , Tokyo, Kimura started taking photographs when very young but his interest intensified when he was around 20 and living in Tainan, Taiwan, where he was working for a sugar wholesaler. He opened a photographic studio in Nippori, Tokyo in 1924...
, Shigeichi NaganoShigeichi NaganoBorn on 30 March 1925 in Ōita City, Nagano studied economics at Keio University . On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for Weekly Sun News ; and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about...
, Ikkō NaraharaIkko Naraharais a Japanese photographer. Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied law at Chuo University and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, art history at the graduate school of Waseda University ....
, Takeyoshi TanumaTakeyoshi Tanumais a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...
, and Shōmei TōmatsuShomei Tomatsuis a Japanese photographer.Born Teruaki Tōmatsu in Nagoya in 1930, Tōmatsu studied economics at Aichi University, graduating in 1954. While still a student, he had his photographs published by the major Japanese photography magazines. He entered Iwanami and worked on the series Iwanami Shashin Bunko...
). Sengo shashin / Saisei to tenkai / Twelve Photographers in Japan, 1945–55. Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1990. Despite the alternative title in English, almost exclusively in Japanese (although each of the twelve has a potted chronology in English). Catalogue of an exhibition held at Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of ArtYamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, in Yamaguchi City is the main art gallery of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.Opened in 1979, the gallery has a permanent collection, part of which is exhibited at any one time, and also hosts special exhibitions....
. Twenty of Hayashi's photographs of kasutori jidai appear on pp. 7–17. - Tōkyō: Toshi no shisen / Tokyo: A City Perspective. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1990. Eleven photographs from the Kasutori no jidai series appear in this lavish catalogue of an exhibition of postwar black and white photographs. Captions and text in both Japanese and English.
Sources and external links
- Akiyama Shōtarō. Untitled reminiscence. P. 31 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi.
- "Chronology". Pp. 178–87 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi. CV with chronology at Fujifilm.
- Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai: Hayashi Tadahiko no mita sengo: Kasutori, bunshi, soshite Amerika / Tadahiko Hayashi. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1993. This bilingual production is particularly informative (as well as having an excellent selection of Hayashi's earlier work, excellently reproduced). Hayashi at the Shunan City Museum of Art and History Photographs by Hayashi at the Shunan City Museum of Art and History Katō Kōki . Capsule review of Kasutori Jidai. P. 200. In Shashinshū o yomu: Besuto 338 kanzen gaido . Tokyo: Metarōgu, 1997. ISBN 4-8398-2010-4.
- Midorikawa Yōichi. “My Dear Friend Hayashi Tadahiko. P. 79 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi. “Le Japon des romans”: on an exhibition at Studio Equis (Paris); with sample photographs.
- Mitsuhashi Sumiyo. “Tadahiko Hayashi: A reappraisal in the light of America 1955.” pp. 7–25 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi. Mitsuhashi Sumiyo . Hayashi Tadahiko. In Nihon shashinka jiten / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. P. 258. ISBN 4-473-01750-8. Despite its alternative title in English, the text is all in Japanese. Nihon no shashinka / Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. ISBN 4-8169-1948-1. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
- Ono, Philbert. “Hayashi Tadahiko” photojpn.org
- Orto, Luisa. "Hayashi Tadahiko." In Anne Wilkes Tucker, et al., The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8.
- Ōtake Shōji. Untitled reminiscence. P. 77 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi.
- Saitō Kōichi. Untitled reminiscence. P. 131 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi. “Tadahiko Hayashi” at photosapiens.com
- Ueda Shōji. Untitled reminiscence. P. 129 of Hayashi Tadahiko no sekai / Tadahiko Hayashi.