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Hiraga Gennai | |
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平賀 源内 | |
 1845 A Portrait of Kyūkei Hiraga (1729–80) by Momuō Kimura | |
| Born | c.1729 |
| Other names | Kyūkei (鳩渓), Fūrai Sanjin (風来山人), Tenjiku rōnin (天竺浪人) and Fukuchi Kigai (福内鬼外) |
| Education | Student of Rangaku[2]: 65 |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, author, painter and inventor |
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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, physician, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer)[1]: 462 and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth)[2]: 67 . Gennai composed several works of literature, including the fictional satires Fūryū Shidōken den (1763),[1]: 486-512 the Nenashigusa (1763),[1]: 463-486 [3]: 115-124 and the Nenashigusa kohen (1768), and the satirical essays On Farting[3]: 393–9 and A Lousy Journey of Love.[3]: 62-4 He also authored two guidebooks on the male prostitutes of Japan, the Kiku no en (1764) and the San no asa (1768).[4]: 75 His birth name was Shiraishi Kunitomo,[citation needed] but he later used numerous pen names, including Kyūkei (鳩渓), Fūrai Sanjin (風来山人) (his principal literary pen name), Tenjiku rōnin (天竺浪人) and Fukuchi Kigai (福内鬼外). He is best known by the name Hiraga Gennai.
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