Hayashi 1248427 216392096 2008-06-01T12:48:57Z Kintetsubuffalo 487310 {{transliterationof|Hayashi|林|林}} {{Family name | name = Hayashi | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation = Hayashi | meaning = woods | region = [[Japanese language|Japanese]] | origin = Japanese | related names = [[Kobayashi]] | footnotes = <ref>[http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html 1990 Census Name Files<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> }} '''''Hayashi''''' ([[wikt:林|林]], literally "[[Woodland|woods]]"), is a common [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[surname]]. People named Hayashi include: *[[Asuca Hayashi]] (singer) *[[Chushiro Hayashi]] (astrophysicist) *[[Hayashi Fubo]] (author) *[[Hayashi Fumiko]] (author, poet) *[[Hayashi Fusao]] (author) *[[Hayashi Hidesada]] (retainer to [[Oda clan]]) *[[Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo_subway#Ikuo Hayashi|Ikuo Hayashi]], one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway *[[Joe Hayashi]] (Japanese-American World War II soldier) *[[Kaz Hayashi]] (professional wrestler) *[[Masumi Hayashi (poisoner)|Masumi Hayashi]] (murderer) *[[Masumi Hayashi (photographer)|Masumi Hayashi]] (photographer) *[[Hayashi Narinaga]] (samurai general) *[[Hayashi Senjuro]] (former Prime Minister of Japan) *[[Shizuya Hayashi]] (Japanese-American World War II soldier) *[[Tadahiko Hayashi]] (photographer) *[[Hayashi Tadasu]] (diplomat) *[[Hayashi Tadataka]] (1848-1941), [[daimyo]] *[[Takanobu Hayashi]] (photographer) *[[Teruo Hayashi]] (martial artist and founder of Hayashi-ha karate) *[[Tsuruichi Hayashi]] (1873&ndash;1935), [[mathematician]] *[[Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo_subway#Yasuo Hayashi|Yasuo Hayashi]], one of the perpetrators of the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway *[[Yoshiki (musician)|Yoshiki Hayashi]] (musician) Hayashi is also *The name of a former samurai clan, the [[Hayashi clan]], several members of which served hereditarily as foreign policy advisors in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] *The daimyō family of [[Jōzai han]] *The name of one of the [[four go houses]] in the [[Edo period]] *A dish consisting of stewed beef and onions in gravy: [[Hayashi rice]] *[[Hayashi (music)]], the term for a musical accompanist section, usually consisting primarily of percussion, in traditional Japanese theatre and dance. ==References== <references/> ==See also== * [[Japanese name]] {{disambig}} [[Category:Japanese surnames]] [[de:Hayashi]] [[ja:林]]