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    Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, born c.1729; died 1779 or 1780) was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku...
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  • Hiraga (written: 平賀) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内, 1728–1780), Japanese pharmacologist, writer...
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    electricity used for electric experiments in the 18th century. In Japan, Hiraga Gennai presented his own elekiter in 1776, derived from an elekiter from Holland...
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    obtained for the first time in Japan from the Dutch around 1770 by Hiraga Gennai. Static electricity was produced by the friction of a glass tube with...
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    Nitta Shrine. Yoshioki is the subject of an Edo-period kabuki play by Hiraga Gennai (1728–1780) titled Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi. "新田義興" [Nitta Yoshioki]...
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    techniques. The school got its start when rangaku (Dutch studies) scholar Hiraga Gennai was invited to help advise the domain on the management of its copper...
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    Shinsho, and admired what he felt to be Sugita and Maeno's masterpiece. Hiraga Gennai, on Shōgatsu of the third year of An'ei, visited the home of Sugita...
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    from India"), used by Hiraga Gennai, to whom Chūryō was the principal literary successor. Chūryō co-authored several plays with Gennai early in his career...
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    Hitoshi Ueki and Nobosemon (2017) – Hitoshi Ueki Fūunji tachi (2018) – Hiraga Gennai Naruto Hitchō (2018) - Norizuki Gennojō Kishū Hanshu Tokugawa Yoshimune...
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