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Tadayoshi Nakabayashi(中林忠良) (born 17 September 1937) is a contemporary artist and printmaker. He has for many years been one of Japan's foremost artists in intaglio (printmaking). He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts. Among the various techniques employed in intaglio, Nakabayashi works primarily in etching, and throughout his career, he has focused on the process of decay within artistic production. He adopted this philosophy after being deeply moved by the words of poet Mitsuharu Kaneko (1895–1975): "Nothing can escape from decay." As this anecdote indicates; to Nakabayashi, the phenomenon of decay is not simply a means of print production but rather a microcosm of this world in which creation and extinction repeat in neverending cycles, a condition he seeks to inject into his works.

Early life, family and education
Nakabayashi was born on September 17 1937 in Shinagawa, Tokyo. In 1944, during the bombing of Tokyo, he was evacuated to Kamo, Niigata with his brother. In 1948, he returned to Tokyo. From 1956 to 1957, he worked for Baseball Magazine Sha Co. Ltd. In 1959, he entered the Department of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (presently Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), and graduated in 1963. In 1965, he completed print-making graduate course at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

In 1964, he married Keiko Oyamada and lived in Nerima, Tokyo. In 1965, his son, Takashi was born; and in 1968, his first, Ami was born.

Before 1980
In 1966, Nakabayashi became a part-time instructor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Later in 1974, he became an Instructor in the same university. In 1975, he received a grant from the Japan Ministry of Education to study in École des Beaux-Arts, Paris and Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. In 1978, He came an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Fine Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.