During the last 20 years of his life, the art dealer Hayashi Tadamasa (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 Hayashi Tadamasa in the West and Japan. This volume contains 772 letters addressed to Hayashi Tadamasa as well as essays on his life and work.