Publisher's Synopsis
During the last twenty years of his life, the art dealer Tadamasa Hayashi (1853-1906) received an important and impassioned correspondence from around the world. Through these letters the friend of many artists, collectors and intellectuals, and the specialist in Japanese art and connoisseur of Western art, reveals himself to us. These letters allow us to determine the fundamental role played by Tadamasa Hayashi in the West and in Japan.
