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Emperor Go-Yōzei

1571 - 1617

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Emperor Go-Yōzei (後陽成天皇, Go-Yōzei-tennō, December 31, 1571 – September 25, 1617) was the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.: 111  Go-Yōzei's reign spanned the years 1586 through to his abdication in 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi–Momoyama period and the Edo period. This 16th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Yōzei, and go- (後), translates as later, and thus, he could be called the "Later Emperor Yōzei". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Go-Yōzei has received more than 615,613 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Emperor Go-Yōzei is the 2,994th most popular politician (down from 2,903rd in 2019).

Emperor Go-yōzei is most famous for his edict forbidding the construction of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Kyoto.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emperor Go-Yōzei ranks 2,994 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Vratislaus II of Bohemia, Sargon I, Kaykhusraw I, Oleg Penkovsky, and Ahhotep I. After him are Merenre Nemtyemsaf II, Wittiza, Konrad Henlein, Cardinal de Rohan, Huáscar, and Bardiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1571, Emperor Go-Yōzei ranks 6. Before him are Johannes Kepler, Caravaggio, Abbas the Great, Frederick de Houtman, and Hasekura Tsunenaga. After him are Michael Praetorius, Thomas Mun, Mulla Sadra, Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias, Willem Blaeu, and Charles, Duke of Guise. Among people deceased in 1617, Emperor Go-Yōzei ranks 6. Before him are Ahmed I, Pocahontas, John Napier, Rose of Lima, and Francisco Suárez. After him are Concino Concini, David Fabricius, Hendrik Goltzius, 4th Dalai Lama, Fausto Veranzio, and Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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