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    Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, born c.1729; died 1779 or 1780) was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku...
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    electricity used for electric experiments in the 18th century. In Japan, Hiraga Gennai presented his own elekiter in 1776, derived from an elekiter from Holland...
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  • Hiraga (written: 平賀) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, 1728–1780), Japanese pharmacologist, writer...
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    obtained for the first time in Japan from the Dutch around 1770 by Hiraga Gennai. Static electricity was produced by the friction of a glass tube with...
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    Nitta Shrine. Yoshioki is the subject of an Edo-period kabuki play by Hiraga Gennai (1728–1780) titled Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi. "新田義興" [Nitta Yoshioki]...
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    Grave of Hiraga Gennai "Hiraga Gennai (in Japanese)". Sanuki City. Retrieved 5 April 2021. "The World of Hiraga Gennai (in Japanese)". Hiraga Gennai Memorial...
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    techniques. The school got its start when rangaku (Dutch studies) scholar Hiraga Gennai was invited to help advise the domain on the management of its copper...
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    Hitoshi Ueki and Nobosemon (2017) – Hitoshi Ueki Fūunji tachi (2018) – Hiraga Gennai Naruto Hitchō (2018) - Norizuki Gennojō Kishū Hanshu Tokugawa Yoshimune...
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  • Colle Knights (Songstress of the Flower Garden) Nobunaga the Fool (Hiraga Gennai) Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Kejoro) One Piece (Hera, Misery) Onegai...
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    from India"), used by Hiraga Gennai, to whom Chūryō was the principal literary successor. Chūryō co-authored several plays with Gennai early in his career...
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    (2022) Lost Man Found (2022), Hitachi Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (2023), Hiraga Gennai What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), Ohatsu Schilling, Mark (March 24,...
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    Shinsho, and admired what he felt to be Sugita and Maeno's masterpiece. Hiraga Gennai, on Shōgatsu of the third year of An'ei, visited the home of Sugita...
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  • Stand My Heroes as Aki Kagura 2017 Akane-sasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau as Hiraga Gennai 2020 Disney: Twisted-Wonderland as Ace Trappola Pilgrimage (Brother...
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    based primarily on the Dutch books imported via Nagasaki. The polymath Hiraga Gennai (1728–1780) was a scholar of rangaku and a writer of popular fiction...
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  • Dutch studies to the men in the Ōoku, and gathered information from Hiraga Gennai, who traveled around the country. In the process, Aonuma came to the...
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    Mikado Hot Springs) was endorsed by the great 18th-century inventor Hiraga Gennai. The white cloudy water has an interesting texture and boasts to be...
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    will be discussed under § Fire-laundereed cloth. In Japan, inventor Hiraga Gennai during the Edo period was famous for trying to replicate using domestically...
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  • future year Carlos Newton or "The Ronin", mixed martial arts fighter Hiraga Gennai or Tenjiku Rōnin, Edo-period Japanese pharmacologist Ronin O'Connor...
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  • Him was terrorizing Edo's citizens, a man named Kennai Hiraga, who is modeled after Hiraga Gennai, created "Chemical X", which changed their appearance...
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    Japanese polymath Hiraga Gennai (1728–1780) constructed a Jacob's ladder which later came to be called "Gennai's Wondrous Click-clack" (Gennai no fushigina...
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    conduction in the waters of the Sumida River in Tokyo. Before that, Hiraga Gennai had built a generator of static electricity, the elekiter, from the...
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  • the space port in the same arc. His name is based on the historical Hiraga Gennai. Voiced by: Koichi Sakaguchi (Japanese) Musashi (武蔵) is homeless man...
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    Tsurigane-dokei (hanging bell-shaped clock) The Elekiter (replica) made by Hiraga Gennai Clockwork Clock exhibit Clock exhibit The theme is "History of Earth...
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  • and instead fires 2 bullets almost at the same time. Her ancestor is Hiraga Gennai. Kinji has stated that considering her skills, she should be ranked...
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    verse (called kyōshi in Japanese), under the mentorship of playwright Hiraga Gennai, to daily life in Edo. His first collection of work was called Neboke...
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  • man to be happy. Gennai Hiraga Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese); Leraldo Anzaldua (English) Gennai Hiraga (平賀 源内, Hiraga Gennai) is the Mobile Shinsengumi's...
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    perspective. He was also a student of Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar Hiraga Gennai, who he had invited up to Akita to advise him on management of the domain's...
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  • Shiba Kōkan among others. He was close with such rangaku scholars as Hiraga Gennai and Sugita Genpaku, and expressed an interest in Western painting. Rather...
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  • (27 May 2009). "Orienting natural knowledge: the complex career of Hiraga Gennai". Endeavour. 33 (2): 65–69. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.04.009. ISSN 0160-9327...
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    used for warding off evil spirits. During a visit to Nitta Shrine, Hiraga Gennai, a pharmacist from the Edo period who was also a student of Rangaku...
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