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*''Born: [[1657]]/2/10''
*''Died: [[1725]]/6/29''
*''Japanese'': 新井白石 ''(Arai Hakuseki)''
Arai Hakuseki was a [[Confucianism|Confucian scholar]] and influential shogunal advisor of the [[Genroku period]] (late 17th to early 18th centuries).
He was particularly influential in effecting a shift in [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] attitudes and policies regarding foreign relations, articulating the conceptual meaning and discursive value for the shogunate's legitimacy of conceptualizing foreign relations with [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] in terms of a [[tribute|tributary]] relationship patterned after the [[Sinocentric world order|Sinocentric worldview]].
Among other reforms he advised implementing were the reversal of a [[1695]] debasement of the [[currency]], ...
Hakuseki made a point to meet with ambassadors or representatives from foreign countries on a number of occasions, including meeting with [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Giovanni Battista Sidotti]] in [[1708]], with ambassadors from Ryûkyû in [[1710]], and with envoys from Korea in [[1711]].
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==Selected Works==
*''Sairan igen'' 采覧異言 (1713)
*''Seiyô kibun'' 西洋記聞 (1715)
*''[[Nantoshi|Nantôshi]]'' 南島志 (1719)
*''Ezo shi'' 蝦夷史 ("History of [[Ezo]]", 1720)
==References==
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
*''Died: [[1725]]/6/29''
*''Japanese'': 新井白石 ''(Arai Hakuseki)''
Arai Hakuseki was a [[Confucianism|Confucian scholar]] and influential shogunal advisor of the [[Genroku period]] (late 17th to early 18th centuries).
He was particularly influential in effecting a shift in [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] attitudes and policies regarding foreign relations, articulating the conceptual meaning and discursive value for the shogunate's legitimacy of conceptualizing foreign relations with [[Joseon Dynasty]] Korea and the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] in terms of a [[tribute|tributary]] relationship patterned after the [[Sinocentric world order|Sinocentric worldview]].
Among other reforms he advised implementing were the reversal of a [[1695]] debasement of the [[currency]], ...
Hakuseki made a point to meet with ambassadors or representatives from foreign countries on a number of occasions, including meeting with [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Giovanni Battista Sidotti]] in [[1708]], with ambassadors from Ryûkyû in [[1710]], and with envoys from Korea in [[1711]].
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==Selected Works==
*''Sairan igen'' 采覧異言 (1713)
*''Seiyô kibun'' 西洋記聞 (1715)
*''[[Nantoshi|Nantôshi]]'' 南島志 (1719)
*''Ezo shi'' 蝦夷史 ("History of [[Ezo]]", 1720)
==References==
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
