WRITER

Chūya Nakahara

1907 - 1937

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Chūya Nakahara (中原 中也, Nakahara Chūya, 29 April 1907 – 22 October 1937), born Chūya Kashimura (柏村 中也, Kashimura Chūya), was a Japanese poet active during the early Shōwa period. Originally shaped by Dada and other forms of European (mainly French) experimental poetry, he was one of the leading renovators of Japanese poetry. Although he died at the young age of 30, he wrote more than 350 poems throughout his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chūya Nakahara has received more than 513,233 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Chūya Nakahara is the 1,275th most popular writer (up from 1,332nd in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Japan (down from 296th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chūya Nakahara ranks 1,275 out of 7,302. Before him are Lobsang Rampa, Erskine Caldwell, Edmond François Valentin About, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Marcus Minucius Felix, and Robert Sheckley. After him are Siegfried Kracauer, Matthias Flacius, Akka Mahadevi, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, and Antipater of Sidon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Chūya Nakahara ranks 64. Before him are Altiero Spinelli, Ray Milland, Sigvard Bernadotte, Ernesto Geisel, Miklós Rózsa, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. After him are Lee Miller, Giovanni Ferrari, Emilie Schindler, Horia Sima, Mehdi Bazargan, and Fabian von Schlabrendorff. Among people deceased in 1937, Chūya Nakahara ranks 43. Before him are Pavel Florensky, Ray Ewry, Wallace Carothers, Walter Simons, Bessie Smith, and Yeghishe Charents. After him are Louis Vierne, Hugo Meisl, Georgy Pyatakov, Vincenzo Lancia, Andrés Nin Pérez, and Abd al-Hafid of Morocco.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Chūya Nakahara ranks 297 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Nijō (1285), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Emperor Yūryaku (418), and Akira Nozawa (1914). After him are Kunitaka Sueoka (1917), Maeda Toshiie (1538), Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), Empress Masako (1963), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), and Ryōji Noyori (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Chūya Nakahara ranks 28. Before him are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Yosano Akiko (1878), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872). After him are Ryū Murakami (1952), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ono no Komachi (825), Junji Ito (1963), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653).

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