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    Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石, March 24, 1657 – June 29, 1725) was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan...
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    was shōgun, and was being advised by his long-time Confucian advisor, Arai Hakuseki, who held considerable influence in the shōgun's court at Edo. At the...
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    he was confined until his death. The Japanese politician and scholar Arai Hakuseki published the Seiyō Kibun based on his conversations with Sidotti. Sidotti...
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    Confucian philosophy took hold. Neo-Confucians such as Hayashi Razan and Arai Hakuseki were instrumental in the formulation of Japan's dominant early modern...
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  • Oritaku Shiba no Ki (category Works by Arai Hakuseki)
    text written by Japanese Edo-period scholar-official Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725). It describes Arai's ancestors, his childhood, and his work as an official...
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    5): Building of temples in Edo banned. 1693 (Genroku 6, 12th month): Arai Hakuseki becomes tutor to the daimyō of Kōfu-han, the future shōgun Tokugawa...
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  • Atsuko (born 1929) Anzai Fuyue (March 9, 1898 – August 24, 1965) Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725) Arai Motoko (born 1960) Araki Toichiro (1895–1977) Arishima Ikuma...
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    Yorimasa decided that he could not rely on conservative Confucianists like Arai Hakuseki in Edo and did what he could to stabilize Kii Domain. Before he could...
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    and become the yōkai called nekomata." The mid-Edo period scholar Arai Hakuseki stated, "Old cats become 'nekomata' and bewilder people." and indicated...
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    Kōken's ordinary crown (凡冠). According to Hakuseki Sensei Shinsho (白石先生紳書), a collection of works by Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725), there is a description stating:...
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    son of Emperor Higashiyama. Fearing extinction of the Imperial Line, Arai Hakuseki proposed that a new branch of the Imperial Family be created. In 1718...
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  • "Watarishima" at the request of the native inhabitants. During the Edo period, Arai Hakuseki proposed that Watarishima was Ezo, which was later renamed Hokkaidō...
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  • shogunate, however, gradually came to think of Muramasa as sinister items. Arai Hakuseki, the official scholar-bureaucrat of the shogunate, commented "Muramasa...
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  • Sairan Igen (category Works by Arai Hakuseki)
    and poet Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725). Completed in 1713, it the first work of world geography published in Japan. Based on knowledge that Hakuseki gained...
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    Asiatic Society of Japan, Vols. 1–2, p. 1., p. 1, at Google Books, citing Arai Hakuseki Titsingh, p. 349. Titsingh, p. 351. Titsingh, P. 356. "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv...
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    Arai Hakuseki in 1715. Trade substitution was encouraged, but remained limited anyway due to the policy of closure, or Sakoku. Upon Arai Hakuseki's suggestion...
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  • Morinari Ankokuji Ekei Aochi Shigetsuna Aokage Takaakira Akahori Chohichi Arai Hakuseki Araki Motokiyo Araki Murashige Araki Muratsugu Arima Kihei Asakura Yoshikage...
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    armour from prehistoric times to the present. Simon & Schuster. p. 306. Arai, Hakuseki; Joly, Henri L.; Inada, Hogitarō (1913). The Sword Book in "Honchō Gunkikō"...
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    suggests that it is so called because it is "always (tsune) yellow (ki)". Arai Hakuseki in Tōga (1717) suggests that ki means 'stench', tsu is a possessive...
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  • Japan illegally and was arrested. His communication with the scholar Arai Hakuseki resulted in the book Seiyō Kibun. Robert Janson (1704, Ireland), a native...
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    4324/9780429499531-20. ISBN 9780429499531. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). [ Arai Hakuseki, 1712] Tokushi Yoron; "Lessons from History: the Tokushi yoron" translated...
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    however, after the early death of Emperor Go-Kōmyō, the Scholar-official Arai Hakuseki found it imminent to create a new shinnōke for one of the imperial princes...
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    Jinsai (1627–1705) Kaibara Ekken (also known as Ekiken) (1630–1714) Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725) Ogyū Sorai (1666–1728) Nakai Chikuzan (1730–1804) Ōshio...
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    Turnbull, Stephen R (2002). Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War, 1592-1598. Cassell & Co. ISBN 9780304359486. Arai Hakuseki,「安宅御船仕様帖」「安宅御船諸色注文帖」,1711...
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    uncle was the shogun. In 1694, a rōnin, Arai Hakuseki, was appointed as personal tutor and advisor to Ienobu. Hakuseki used to be a teacher in Edo, but was...
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    Asiatic Society of Japan, Vols. 1-2, p. 1., p. 1, at Google Books, citing Arai Hakuseki Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu; alternate romaji Sankoku Tsūran Zusetsu; Klaproth...
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  • Japanese water polo player Etsuji Arai (新井 悦二, born 1957), Japanese politician, younger brother of Iemitsu Arai Hakuseki Arai (新井 白石, 1657–1725), Japanese...
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    investigated the political career and writings of the Edo period Confucianist Arai Hakuseki. Ackroyd was a member of the faculty of the Australian National University...
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    family and so on, but without conclusive results. The Edo-period scholar Arai Hakuseki advanced the theory that there was more than one woman named Komachi...
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  • Seiyō Kibun (category Works by Arai Hakuseki)
    a 3-volume study of the Occident by Japanese politician and scholar Arai Hakuseki based on conversations with Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti...
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