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Arai Hakuseki

1657 - 1725

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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 during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the shōgun Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi (君美). Hakuseki (白石) was his pen name. His father was a Kururi han samurai Arai Masazumi (新井 正済). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arai Hakuseki is the 892nd most popular philosopher (down from 844th in 2019), the 900th most popular biography from Japan (down from 786th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arai Hakuseki ranks 892 out of 1,267. Before him are Albrecht Ritschl, Gaudapada, Liu Yuxi, Georges Florovsky, Ernest Nagel, and Antoun Saadeh. After him are Susanne Langer, Jaimini, Rudolf Stammler, Nausiphanes, Ber Borochov, and Wilfrid Sellars.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1657, Arai Hakuseki ranks 11. Before him are Sambhaji, Michel Richard Delalande, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Francesco Solimena, Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, and Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him is Guido Starhemberg. Among people deceased in 1725, Arai Hakuseki ranks 6. Before him are Peter the Great, Alessandro Scarlatti, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Mahmud Hotak, and José Benito de Churriguera. After him are René de Froulay de Tessé, Jonathan Wild, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, and Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Arai Hakuseki ranks 900 out of 6,245. Before him are Saigyō (1118), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Meiko Kaji (1947), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and George Ohsawa (1893). After him are Peter Doi (1892), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Masuzo Madono (null), Yoshito Usui (1958), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), and Hidetoki Takahashi (1916).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Arai Hakuseki ranks 8. Before him are Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Kitaro Nishida (1870), Motoori Norinaga (1730), and Hayashi Razan (1583). After him are Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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