Eitetsu Hayashi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eitetsu Hayashi
Occupation	musician
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1952(1952-02-02)
Age	72
Birthplace	Hiroshima
Country	Japan
Birth City	Hiroshima
Horoscope	Aquarius

Eitetsu Hayashi Biography

Eitetsu Hayashi is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on February 2, 1952 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. Hayashi was born on 2 February 1952 in a mountainous town called Tōjō in Hiroshima Prefecture and grew up in a Buddhist temple, where his father was a monk in the local Shingon sect. Hayashi was the youngest of his seven other siblings. Hayashi reported that in his youth, he listened to The Beatles and was playing drums in a western-style band. He also wanted to be a graphic designer, but gave up on these aspirations upon not being accepted to the Tokyo Arts University.

In 1981, disagreement about musical and professional goals led to a split in Ondekoza. For a short while, there were actually two groups claiming to both be the legitimate Ondekoza, though this was soon settled when Hayashi and others left to form the group Kodo. Although the management of the new group was led by another player named Kawauchi Toshio, Hayashi was recognized as the lead player in the group. In accounts from Hayashi, he came up with the name kodo for the group during a meeting. The name of the group has two meanings: the first, “drum children,” which was based on feedback from mothers that their music lulled their children to sleep. The second, “heartbeat,” was based on the comparison that the sound of the drum mimics the sound of a mother’s heartbeat on her child in the womb. However, after the name of the group was announced at Kodo’s debut in Japan, Hayashi decided to leave the group and begin a solo career.

Eitetsu Hayashi Net Worth

Eitetsu Hayashi is one of the richest musician from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eitetsu Hayashi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eitetsu Hayashi (林英哲 , Hayashi Eitetsu) (born February 2, 1952) is an acclaimed Japanese musician best known for his solo performance work in taiko. Hayashi joined the group Ondekoza at an early age. Later, after parting from group, helped found the taiko group Kodo, though he quickly left to begin a solo career. Hayashi has performed in notable venues such as Carnegie Hall in 1984 and was the first featured taiko performer at the institution. He is also the recipient of multiple awards recognizing the cultural value of his work.

In 1972, in order to begin building a repertoire, Hayashi and two other members of Ondekoza traveled to Chichibu, Saitama to learn the festival piece Chichibu Yatai-bayashi, and spent one week attending and observing practice sessions of the local performers. However, learning the piece proved difficult; Hayashi explained, “Japanese folk music was…usually learned by memorizing a series of kuchi shoga….in addition to the fact that each player’s method of playing the assigned part differed slightly and often featured an element of improvisation…” With considerable difficulty, Hayashi was able to transform the folk piece into a performance for Ondekoza, who used a completely different set of instruments. Later in 1975, Hayashi debuted with the rest of Ondekoza in the United States by playing taiko immediately after running the Boston Marathon. Hayashi continued this tradition of performing immediately after running the marathon an additional six times after 1975. In total, Hayashi played with Ondekoza for 11 years.

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