Hayashi Tadataka
Japanese noble
Died when: 92 years 149 days (1108 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Hayashi Tadataka (? ??, August 26, 1848 – January 22, 1941) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Jozai Domain.Later in life, he was also known by his style, Ichimu (??).
During the Boshin War of 1868, Hayashi led his domain's forces in support of the armies of the former shogun, and then the Ouetsu Reppan Domei.
Unlike the Tokugawa forces that 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 period he worked in various occupations (even as a clerk for a business in Hakodate), before working for the government.
In the Meiji period, his family was ennobled as part of the kazoku system.For a time he also served at Tosho-gu 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 jisei on the day he died, he is reported to have said, "I had one in 1868.
Not now." (?????????????) Hayashi appears as a character in Ikenami Shotaro's novel Bakumatsu Yugekitai.
