2-612-583 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Count Hayashi Tadasu, (1850-1913), career diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji period Japan. On December 2, 1905 Hayashi became the first Japanese ambassador to the Court of St. James's, as diplomatic relations warmed between the Empire of Japan and the British Empire. From Hignett's Butterfly Medium Cigarette - Modern Statesmen, 1906.