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48: 1346: 1334: 342: 276: 299:, a series of economic policies designed to improve the shogunate's standing. By minting new and better quality currency, inflation was controlled. Calculating from trade records, Hakuseki deduced that fully 25% of gold and 75% of silver in Japan had been spent on trades with foreign countries. Concerned that Japan's national resources were at risk, he implemented a new trade policy, the 303:(海舶互市新例), to control payments to Chinese and Dutch merchants by demanding that instead of precious metals, products like silk, porcelain, and dried seafoods should be used for trading. However, the beneficial effects of this policy were limited as the trade of precious metals from 1052: 412:. Since there had been no revolution to change Japan's basic institutions, he argued that the shogun was subordinate to the emperor and that in showing good governance, moral fortitude and respect to the emperor a shogun proved that he held 420:
and thus to a line of imperial descent in order to show that Ieyasu's political supremacy had been fitting. To strengthen the shogun's power and maintain national prestige he proposed changing the title to koku-ō – nation-king.
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Kazui, Tashiro; Videen, Susan Downing (Summer 1982). "Foreign Relations during the Edo Period: Sakoku Reexamined".
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Hakuseki's published writings encompass 237 works in 390 publications in 6 languages and 3,163 library holdings.
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and because he was hot tempered and his brow would crease looking like 火 or "fire", he was affectionately called
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Japanese historians and the national myths, 1600–1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jimmu.
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Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712).
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Henderson, Dan Fenno (1970). "Chinese legal studies in early 18th century Japan".
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dynasty's ambassadors, in the face of opposition from the Tsushima Confucianist
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The Hye Ch'o Diary: Memoirs of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India
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and the domain's income declined. Hakuseki offered to leave, becoming a
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822.
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822
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Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki
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Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki
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Fookoua Siriak: traité sur l'origins des richesses au japon
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advisers to become the leading confucianist for Ienobu and
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In 1693, Hakuseki was called up to serve by the side of
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Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
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Plays, Prefaces and Postscripts: Theatre of the Mind
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Index

Japanese name
surname
Arai Hakuseki
Confucianist
scholar-bureaucrat
Edo period
shōgun
Tokugawa Ienobu
Kururi
han
Edo
genius
Kanji
Great Fire of Meireki
Hotta Masatoshi
Inaba Masayasu
Hotta clan
Sakura
Yamagata
Fukushima
rōnin
Kinoshita Jun'an
Kaga Domain
Manabe Akifusa
Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa Ienobu
Hayashi
Tokugawa Ietsugu
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Asakusa

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