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PHILOSOPHER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arai Hakuseki has received more than 77,333 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Arai Hakuseki is the 874th most popular philosopher (down from 848th in 2019), the 828th most popular biography from Japan (down from 813th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arai Hakuseki ranks 874 out of 1,081. Before him are Susanne Langer, Gaudapada, Antoun Saadeh, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Jean Wahl, and Jakob Friedrich Fries. After him are Charles Renouvier, Nasr Abu Zayd, Konstantin Leontiev, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, James Mark Baldwin, and Simón Rodríguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1657, Arai Hakuseki ranks 10. Before him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Michel Richard Delalande, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, Sambhaji, Francesco Solimena, and Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz. After him are Guido Starhemberg and Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1725, Arai Hakuseki ranks 5. Before him are Peter the Great, Alessandro Scarlatti, Mahmud Hotak, and Chikamatsu Monzaemon. After him are Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, René de Froulay de Tessé, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, José Benito de Churriguera, and Jonathan Wild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Arai Hakuseki ranks 828 out of 6,048. Before him are Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), Prince Hisaaki (1276), Takeshi Kamo (1915), Saigō Jūdō (1843), and Kiyoura Keigo (1850). After him are Yukio Endo (1937), Keisuke Honda (1986), Shōji Nishimura (1889), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Inō Tadataka (1745), and Tetsurō Tamba (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

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

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