1771 - 1840
Emperor Kōkaku (光格天皇, Kōkaku-tennō, 23 September 1771 – 11 December 1840) was the 119th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kōkaku reigned from 16 December 1780 until his abdication on 7 May 1817 in favor of his son, Emperor Ninkō. After his abdication, he ruled as Daijō Tennō (太上天皇, Abdicated Emperor) also known as a Jōkō (上皇) until his death in 1840. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Kōkaku has received more than 370,285 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Emperor Kōkaku is the 1,551st most popular politician (up from 1,565th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Japan and the 15th most popular Japanese Politician.
Emperor Kōkaku is most famous for his role in the Meiji Restoration.
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Among politicians, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 1,551 out of 15,710. Before him are Tiberius II Constantine, Æthelred the Unready, Henry II of Navarre, Emperor Ninkō, Ahmad Sanjar, and Josef Kramer. After him are Lajos Kossuth, Gongmin of Goryeo, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Djer, Bessus, and Pharamond.
520 - 582
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 1,545
968 - 1016
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 1,546
1503 - 1555
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,547
1800 - 1846
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,548
1085 - 1157
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,549
1906 - 1945
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,550
1771 - 1840
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,551
1802 - 1894
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,552
1330 - 1374
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,553
1738 - 1789
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 1,554
3050 BC - 3000 BC
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 1,555
400 BC - 329 BC
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 1,556
370 - 427
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 1,557
Among people born in 1771, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 5. Before him are Walter Scott, Robert Owen, Richard Trevithick, and Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen. After him are Antoine-Jean Gros, Julie Clary, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Alois Senefelder, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Marie François Xavier Bichat, and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg. Among people deceased in 1840, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 7. Before him are Niccolò Paganini, Caspar David Friedrich, Frederick William III of Prussia, Siméon Denis Poisson, Lucien Bonaparte, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers. After him are Jacques MacDonald, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Louis de Bonald, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol.
1771 - 1832
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 1
1771 - 1858
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 2
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 3
1771 - 1847
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 4
1771 - 1840
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 5
1771 - 1835
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 6
1771 - 1845
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 7
1771 - 1843
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 8
1771 - 1834
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 9
1771 - 1851
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 10
1771 - 1802
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 11
1771 - 1820
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 12
1782 - 1840
HPI: 85.96
Rank: 1
1774 - 1840
HPI: 82.26
Rank: 2
1770 - 1840
HPI: 79.13
Rank: 3
1781 - 1840
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 4
1775 - 1840
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 5
1758 - 1840
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 6
1771 - 1840
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 7
1765 - 1840
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 8
1752 - 1840
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 9
1754 - 1840
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 10
1792 - 1840
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 11
1759 - 1840
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 12
1772 - 1840
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 13
Among people born in Japan, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 57 out of 5,560. Before him are Itō Hirobumi (1841), Liv Ullmann (1938), Shinzō Abe (1954), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Takeshi Kitano (1947), and Emperor Ninkō (1800). After him are Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Date Masamune (1567), Utamaro (1753), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), and Koxinga (1624).
1841 - 1909
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 51
1938 - Present
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 52
1954 - Present
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 53
1903 - 1982
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 54
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 55
1800 - 1846
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 56
1771 - 1840
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 57
1530 - 1578
HPI: 74.17
Rank: 58
1567 - 1636
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 59
1753 - 1806
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 60
1583 - 1612
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 61
1526 - 1582
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 62
1624 - 1662
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 63
Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 15. Before him are Takeda Shingen (1521), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Shinzō Abe (1954), and Emperor Ninkō (1800). After him are Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Koxinga (1624), Emperor Suizei (-669), Tomoe Gozen (1157), and Emperor Annei (-577).
1521 - 1573
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 9
1831 - 1867
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 10
1147 - 1199
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 11
1841 - 1909
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 12
1954 - Present
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 13
1800 - 1846
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 14
1771 - 1840
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 15
1530 - 1578
HPI: 74.17
Rank: 16
1583 - 1612
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 17
1624 - 1662
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 18
669 BC - 548 BC
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 19
1157 - 1247
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 20
577 BC - 510 BC
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 21