Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石, March 24, 1657 – June 29, 1725)[1] 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.[2][3] 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).
In this Japanese name, the surname is Arai.