Arai Hakuseki, Japanese philosopher, academic, and politician (born 1657)

Arai Hakuseki

Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)

Arai Hakuseki 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…