Selected Works
Hakuseki's published writings encompass 237 works in 390 publications in 6 languages and 3,163 library holdings.
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- 1709 — 本朝軍器考
- 1709 -- Sairan Igen (采覧異言,, Collected views and strange words?).
- 1711 -- Hōka shiryaku (Brief history of currency), also known as Honchō hōka tsūyō jiryaku ("Short Account of the circulation of currency in this realm").
- _________. (1828). Fookoua Siriak: traité sur l'origins des richesses au japon (translation of Hōka shiryaku by Julius Klaproth). Paris. (French) (1712). '
- 1712 -- Tokushi Yoron (読史余論,, Lessons from History?).
- 1715 -- Seiyō Kibun (西洋記聞,, Record of things heard from the West?). A work describing the Occident, based on Hakuseki's conversations with Giovanni Battista Sidotti
- 1729 — 蝦夷志
- 1760 — 同文通考
- 1805 — 東雅
- 1894 — Hankanfu (藩翰譜). A list of daimyo's family tree
- 1936 — 新井白石集
- 1964 — 戴恩記
- 1977 — 新井白石全集
- 1977 — 新編藩翰譜
- 1981 — 新令句解
- Koshitsu (古史通). A work that detailed ancient history of Japan
- Oritaku Shiba-no-ki (折りたく柴の記). A diary and memoir
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