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Emperor Higashiyama

1675 - 1710

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Asahito (Japanese: 朝仁), posthumously honored as Emperor Higashiyama (東山天皇, Higashiyama-tennō, 21 October 1675 – 16 January 1710), was the 113th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Higashiyama's reign spanned the years from 1687 through to his abdication in 1709 corresponding to the Genroku era of the Edo period. The previous hundred years of peace and seclusion in Japan had created relative economic stability. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Higashiyama has received more than 339,514 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Emperor Higashiyama is the 2,717th most popular politician (down from 2,548th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Japan (down from 108th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Japanese Politician.

Emperor Higashiyama was the emperor who ruled Japan from 1707 to 1709. He is most famous for being the first Japanese emperor to visit Europe.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emperor Higashiyama ranks 2,717 out of 19,576. Before him are Mariano Rajoy, Candaules, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Aristagoras, Petr Pavel, and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. After him are Eugenius, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, William I of Sicily, Vladimír Mečiar, Richard of Cornwall, and Nebra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1675, Emperor Higashiyama ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict XIV. After him are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Tarabai, Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, William Jones, Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Guillaume Delisle, Samuel Clarke, and Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1710, Emperor Higashiyama ranks 3. Before him are Ole Rømer, and Louise de La Vallière. After him are Hennig Brand, Bernardo Pasquini, Louis, Prince of Condé, Gaspar Sanz, Duchess Charlotte Felicitas of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry, Duke of Saxe-Römhild, and Gottfried Kirch.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Higashiyama ranks 124 out of 6,245. Before him are Chiune Sugihara (1900), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Emperor Kōan (-427), Akio Morita (1921), Empress Kōjun (1903), and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886). After him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Shigeru Miyamoto (1952), Eisaku Satō (1901), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Yamato Takeru (72), and Masaru Emoto (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Higashiyama ranks 36. Before him are Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Tarō Asō (1940), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Emperor Nintoku (290), Emperor Reigen (1654), and Emperor Kōan (-427). After him are Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Eisaku Satō (1901), Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604), Yamato Takeru (72), Shigeru Yoshida (1878), and Emperor Go-Sai (1638).

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