Arai Hakuseki - Selected Works

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