Araki Seishi (荒木 精之, 1907-1981) was an eccentric Japanese historian, novelist, and publisher.
In 1935, while teaching at his mother in law's school in Kikuchi, Araki published the novel Environment and Blood (環境と血, Kankyō to ketsu), but it was banned immediately after its first publishing on the grounds that it promoted liberalism and corrupted public morals.
In late 1944, Araki was pressed into service digging underground air raid shelters on the island of Ōyano-jima.
On August 17, 1945, Araki and a number of friends gathered at the Fujisaki Hachimangū shrine and formed the Loyalist Militia (尊皇義勇軍, Sonnō giyūgun), also called the "Shōwa Shinpūren" (昭和神風連), a resistance movement with the stated objective of defending Kumamoto to the death from the Allied occupation army.
He was later involved in the memorialization of Kumamoto landmarks, including the former residence of Lafcadio Hearn, as well as local archival and historiographical research and preservation.