# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hikaru-hayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:03:30.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hikaru-hayashi"
name: "Hikaru Hayashi"
slug: "hikaru-hayashi"
description: "Hikaru Hayashi  was a Japanese composer, pianist and conductor. Hayashi is considered to be one of the most renowned and accomplished Japanese composers of the postwar period. In particular, Hayashi was noted for his choral suite Scenes from Hiroshima (1958–2001)."
tagline: "Japanese composer (1931–2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-10-22"
deathDate: "2012-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             1.654888103651355
  historical:           10.80457733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370618/"
    handle:    "nm0370618"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/884523"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "هيكارو هاياشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيكارو هاياشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Haja%C5%A1i"
    title: "Hikaru Hajaši"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "هیکارو هایاشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E5%85%89"
    title: "林光"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Hayashi"
    title: "Hikaru Hayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25e90311-d34f-443f-bdd5-26333a5f0ec2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1618037"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump