The Most Famous

Dancers from Japan

This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Dancers. The pantheon dataset contains 116 Dancers, 1 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 18th most number of Dancers behind Aruba and Cuba.

Top 1 Dancers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Dancers of all time. This list of famous Japanese Dancers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

#1
Izumo no Okuni
b. 1572
HPI 66.2628 langs
Creator of kabuki theatre

Top 1 Dancers

Izumo no Okuni