Arai Hakuseki
Arai Hakuseki was born on March 24, 1657. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Arai Hakuseki
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. His father was a Kururi han samurai, Arai Masazumi (新井 正済).