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[[File:Hayashi-tadasu.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Hayashi Tadasu, as seen on one of a number of monuments to members of the [[Sato family (Juntendo)|Satô family]], at the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]]]]
*''Born: [[1850]]''
*''Died: 1913/7/10''
*''Titles'': 伯爵 ''(hakushaku; Baron)''
*''Other Names'': [[佐藤]]董 ''(Satou Tadasu)''
*''Japanese'': [[林]]董 ''(Hayashi Tadasu)''
Baron Hayashi Tadasu was a prominent diplomat of the [[Meiji period]] and one-time [[Foreign Minister]], who served in England, Russia, and China, and was the chief Japanese official involved in the signing of the [[1902]] [[Anglo-Japanese Alliance]].
Tadasu was the fifth son of [[Sato Taizen|Satô Taizen]], founder of the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] (in modern-day [[Chiba prefecture]]). At the age of 12, in [[1862]], he moved with his father to [[Yokohama]], and was adopted by [[Hayashi Dokai|Hayashi Dôkai]], a court physician in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. There in Yokohama he studied English under American missionary Clara Hepburn, the wife of [[James Hepburn]] (designer of the Hepburn romanization system for Japanese).
Tadasu earned support from the shogunate to study abroad at the University of London in [[1866]]. Following his return to Japan, he took part in the [[1868]]-[[1869]] [[Battle of Hakodate]] (part of the [[Boshin War]]), and was captured, but later regained his freedom, and accompanied the [[Iwakura Mission]] to Europe and the United States in [[1871]].
Following the Iwakura Mission, he served in a variety of positions as an official of the [[Meiji government]], including posts in the [[Ministry of Industry]], and as governor of [[Hyogo prefecture|Hyôgo]] and [[Kagawa prefecture]]s. He was appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in [[1891]], and later Japanese Consul-General to Russia, [[Qing Dynasty]] China, and the United Kingdom for brief periods. While in England, in 1902, he concluded the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which continued to serve as a key element of Japan's foreign relations stance until 1923. Tadasu afterwards served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Communications and Transportation, and was named a Baron (''hakushaku'') in [[1907]]. He died in 1913.
==References==
*Pamphlets available at the Juntendô Memorial Buildings Museum.
*"[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/171.html Hayashi, Tadasu]," Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, National Diet Library, 2013.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]
*''Born: [[1850]]''
*''Died: 1913/7/10''
*''Titles'': 伯爵 ''(hakushaku; Baron)''
*''Other Names'': [[佐藤]]董 ''(Satou Tadasu)''
*''Japanese'': [[林]]董 ''(Hayashi Tadasu)''
Baron Hayashi Tadasu was a prominent diplomat of the [[Meiji period]] and one-time [[Foreign Minister]], who served in England, Russia, and China, and was the chief Japanese official involved in the signing of the [[1902]] [[Anglo-Japanese Alliance]].
Tadasu was the fifth son of [[Sato Taizen|Satô Taizen]], founder of the [[Juntendo|Juntendô]] in [[Sakura (city)|Sakura]] (in modern-day [[Chiba prefecture]]). At the age of 12, in [[1862]], he moved with his father to [[Yokohama]], and was adopted by [[Hayashi Dokai|Hayashi Dôkai]], a court physician in service to the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. There in Yokohama he studied English under American missionary Clara Hepburn, the wife of [[James Hepburn]] (designer of the Hepburn romanization system for Japanese).
Tadasu earned support from the shogunate to study abroad at the University of London in [[1866]]. Following his return to Japan, he took part in the [[1868]]-[[1869]] [[Battle of Hakodate]] (part of the [[Boshin War]]), and was captured, but later regained his freedom, and accompanied the [[Iwakura Mission]] to Europe and the United States in [[1871]].
Following the Iwakura Mission, he served in a variety of positions as an official of the [[Meiji government]], including posts in the [[Ministry of Industry]], and as governor of [[Hyogo prefecture|Hyôgo]] and [[Kagawa prefecture]]s. He was appointed Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in [[1891]], and later Japanese Consul-General to Russia, [[Qing Dynasty]] China, and the United Kingdom for brief periods. While in England, in 1902, he concluded the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which continued to serve as a key element of Japan's foreign relations stance until 1923. Tadasu afterwards served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Communications and Transportation, and was named a Baron (''hakushaku'') in [[1907]]. He died in 1913.
==References==
*Pamphlets available at the Juntendô Memorial Buildings Museum.
*"[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/171.html Hayashi, Tadasu]," Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures, National Diet Library, 2013.
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]