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 84,457 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Arai Hakuseki is the 844th most popular philosopher (up from 874th in 2019), the 786th most popular biography from Japan (up from 825th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arai Hakuseki ranks 844 out of 1,267. Before him are Charles Kay Ogden, Joseph Dietzgen, Gilbert Simondon, Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, Ferdinand Christian Baur, and Ferenc Dávid. After him are Lucian Blaga, Valentin Weigel, Franciscus Gomarus, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Michel Marcel Navratil, and Michel Henry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1657, Arai Hakuseki ranks 10. Before him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Sambhaji, Michel Richard Delalande, Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, 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, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and Mahmud Hotak. After him are René de Froulay de Tessé, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, José Benito de Churriguera, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, and Jonathan Wild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Arai Hakuseki ranks 786 out of 6,245. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Prince Koreyasu (1264), Sanjō Sanetomi (1837), Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858), and Osamu Dezaki (1943). After him are Chishū Ryū (1904), Ashikaga Yoshihide (1538), Jirō Minami (1874), Yusuke Omi (1946), Yumi Umeoka (1950), and Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

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

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