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Chikamatsu Monzaemon

1653 - 1725

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Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門, real name Sugimori Nobumori, 杉森 信盛, 1653 – 6 January 1725) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The Encyclopædia Britannica has written that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Japanese dramatist". His most famous plays deal with double-suicides of honor bound lovers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chikamatsu Monzaemon has received more than 204,385 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Chikamatsu Monzaemon is the 1,614th most popular writer (down from 1,495th in 2019), the 443rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 385th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 1,614 out of 5,755. Before him are Zeki Müren, Miklós Zrínyi, Dubravka Ugrešić, Peter Benchley, Hincmar, and Ahmad ibn Mājid. After him are Javier Marías, David Ogilvy, Barbara Cartland, Tanya Savicheva, Olaus Petri, and Raul Hilberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1653, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 9. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland, Prince George of Denmark, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, André-Hercule de Fleury, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and Georg Muffat. After him are Maria Amalia of Courland, Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Caspar van Wittel, Carlo Ruzzini, Muhammad Azam Shah, and Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg. Among people deceased in 1725, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 4. Before him are Peter the Great, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Mahmud Hotak. After him are Arai Hakuseki, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, René de Froulay de Tessé, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, José Benito de Churriguera, and Jonathan Wild.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 443 out of 6,048. Before him are Shiro Azumi (null), Ryū Murakami (1952), Emperor Ninmyō (808), Takeda Sōkaku (1859), Emperor Montoku (827), and Morihiro Hosokawa (1938). After him are Shiro Misaki (null), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (1920), Rei Kawakubo (1942), and Yasuji Okamura (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Chikamatsu Monzaemon ranks 33. Before him are Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ono no Komachi (825), and Ryū Murakami (1952). After him are Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Junji Ito (1963), and Atsushi Nakajima (1909).

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