Editing Senjūrō Hayashi (section)

==Early life and education==
Hayashi was born on 23 February 1876, in Kodatsuno, [[Kanazawa]], [[Ishikawa Prefecture]], the first son of secretary of Tonami District Office Hayashi Shishirō and his wife Bessho Saha.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kawamura |first=Kazuhiko |title=歴史の回想・柳条湖事件 |publisher=Rekishi kenkyukai |pages=69}}{{Unreliable source?|reason=The author Kazuhiko KAWAMURA (川村一彦) has published many [[ebooks]] through [[copy-paste]] [[plagiarism]] from the [[Japanese Wikipedia]]. Please see [[:ja:WP:CFW#川村一彦の著作物]] ([[:ja:Special:PermaLink/95865494#川村一彦の著作物|PermaLink]]). |date=February 2024}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=The author Kazuhiko KAWAMURA (川村一彦) has published many [[ebooks]] through [[copy-paste]] [[plagiarism]] from the [[Japanese Wikipedia]]. Please see [[:ja:WP:CFW#川村一彦の著作物]] ([[:ja:Special:PermaLink/95865494#川村一彦の著作物|PermaLink]]). |date=February 2024}} The family was a [[samurai]]-class family formerly in service to [[Kaga Domain]].<ref name=":0" />{{Unreliable source?|reason=The author Kazuhiko KAWAMURA (川村一彦) has published many [[ebooks]] through [[copy-paste]] [[plagiarism]] from the [[Japanese Wikipedia]]. Please see [[:ja:WP:CFW#川村一彦の著作物]] ([[:ja:Special:PermaLink/95865494#川村一彦の著作物|PermaLink]]). |date=February 2024}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=林銑十郎｜近代日本人の肖像 |url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/datas/170/ |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=近代日本人の肖像 National Diet Library |language=ja}}</ref> The second oldest of his brothers Hayashi Ryōzō became an [[Imperial Japanese Army|Imperial Army]] [[Colonel]], and the youngest brother Shirakawa Yūkichi became Vice Mayor of [[Tokyo City|Tokyo]].<ref name=":0" />{{Unreliable source?|reason=The author Kazuhiko KAWAMURA (川村一彦) has published many [[ebooks]] through [[copy-paste]] [[plagiarism]] from the [[Japanese Wikipedia]]. Please see [[:ja:WP:CFW#川村一彦の著作物]] ([[:ja:Special:PermaLink/95865494#川村一彦の著作物|PermaLink]]). |date=February 2024}}

Hayashi dropped out of school in July 1894 to enlist in the Imperial Japanese Army at the start of the [[First Sino-Japanese War]]. After the end of the war, he attended the [[Imperial Japanese Army Academy]], and on graduation in June 1897 was assigned to the IJA 7th Infantry Regiment. in 1903, he graduated from the [[Army War College (Japan)|Army Staff College]]. With the start of the [[Russo-Japanese War]], Hayashi participated in the [[Siege of Port Arthur]].