MILITARY PERSONNEL

Date Masamune

1567 - 1636

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Date Masamune (伊達 政宗, DAH-tay; September 5, 1567 – June 27, 1636) was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. An outstanding tactician, he was made all the more iconic for his missing eye, as Masamune was often called dokuganryū (独眼竜), or the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Date Masamune has received more than 1,546,939 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Date Masamune is the 196th most popular military personnel (up from 215th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 68th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Masamune is most famous for the creation of a sword called "Kusanagi-no-tsurugi" or "Grass Cutting Sword." This sword was said to be one of the three Imperial Regalia of Japan and was used by the emperor during coronation ceremonies.

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  • 66.51

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Date Masamune ranks 196 out of 2,058. Before him are Johannes Blaskowitz, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Giovanni Giustiniani, and Syagrius. After him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Aleksei Brusilov, Bai Qi, Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vlasov, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1567, Date Masamune ranks 4. Before him are Claudio Monteverdi, Francis de Sales, and Maurice, Prince of Orange. After him are Samuel de Champlain, Willem Schouten, Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, Jacques Clément, Sanada Yukimura, Eleanor de' Medici, Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, and Jacob van Heemskerck. Among people deceased in 1636, Date Masamune ranks 2. Before him is Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After him are Santorio Santorio, Mulla Sadra, Dong Qichang, Sendivogius, Stefano Maderno, Iskandar Muda, Augustus the Elder, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, John Albert II, Gregorio Fernández, and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Date Masamune ranks 73 out of 6,245. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), Fumio Kishida (1957), Akira Toriyama (1955), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), and Shirō Ishii (1892). After him are Sonny Chiba (1939), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Utamaro (1753), Dōgen (1200), Tomoe Gozen (1157), and Nichiren (1222).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Date Masamune ranks 11. Before him are Saigō Takamori (1828), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837). After him are Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Okita Sōji (1842), Shunroku Hata (1879), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Yamagata Aritomo (1838).

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