MILITARY GENERAL
Half-title: Sword and Samé.
Arms and armour, Japanese, Swords, Swords — History — Japan, Swordsmiths’ marks
Arai Hakuseki 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. Hakuseki was his pen name. His father was a Kururi han samurai Arai Masazumi.
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