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*''Born: [[1657]]/2/10''
*''Born: [[1657]]/2/10''
*''Died: [[1725]]/6/29''
*''Died: [[1725]]/6/29''
*''Titles: Chikugo-no-kami''
*''Other Names'': 源君美 ''(Minamoto Kinmi)''
*''Japanese'': 新井白石 ''(Arai Hakuseki)''
*''Japanese'': 新井白石 ''(Arai Hakuseki)''
He was the grandson of [[Arai Kageyu]] (d. [[1609]]); his father was ''[[metsuke]]'' [[Arai Masanari]] ([[1601]]-[[1682]]), and his mother, a daughter of the [[Fujiwara clan]] by the surname Sakai ([[1617]]-[[1678]]).
He was the grandson of [[Arai Kageyu]] (d. [[1609]]); his father was ''[[metsuke]]'' [[Arai Masanari]] ([[1601]]-[[1682]]), and his mother, a daughter of the [[Fujiwara clan]] by the surname Sakai ([[1617]]-[[1678]]).
Hakuseki entered the service of the [[Hotta clan]] in [[1682]], at the age of 26, and later married a daughter of [[Asakura Nagaharu]], another Hotta retainer. His first daughter, Shizu, was born in [[1687]], but died in infancy, possibly at birth. His second daughter, Kiyo, was born in [[1689]]. Hakuseki's first son, [[Arai Akinori]], was born in [[1691]]; Hakuseki resigned from his service to the Hotta earlier that year,<ref>Ackroyd, 283n82.</ref> and moved to a farm at Honjô, in [[Edo]], near the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]].<ref>Ackroyd, 284n86.</ref>
Hakuseki studied [[Zhu Xi]]-style [[Neo-Confucianism]] under [[Kinoshita Jun'an]].
He was granted court rank in [[1709]].
Hakuseki entered the service of the [[Hotta clan]] in [[1682]], at the age of 26, and later married a daughter of [[Asakura Nagaharu]], another Hotta retainer. His first daughter, Shizu, was born in [[1687]], but died in infancy, possibly at birth. His second daughter, Kiyo, was born in [[1689]]. Hakuseki's first son, [[Arai Akinori]], was born in [[1691]]; Hakuseki resigned from his service to the Hotta earlier that year,<ref>Ackroyd, 283n82.</ref> and moved to a farm at Honjô, in [[Edo]], near the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]].<ref>Ackroyd, 284n86.</ref> Beginning in [[1693]], he served as an advisor to [[Tokugawa Tsunatoyo]], lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]].
He was granted court rank in [[1709]], and was named Chikugo-no-kami in 1711.
==Policies==
==Policies==
==Selected Works==
==Selected Works==
*''Hankanpu'' 藩翰譜 (1702)
*''Tokushi yoron'' 読史余論 (1712)
*''Sairan igen'' 采覧異言 (1713)
*''Sairan igen'' 采覧異言 (1713)
*''Seiyô kibun'' 西洋記聞 (1715)
*''Seiyô kibun'' 西洋記聞 (1715)