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Emperor Kōkaku

1771 - 1840

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Morohito (Japanese: 師仁, 23 September 1771 – 11 December 1840), posthumously honored as Emperor Kōkaku (光格天皇, Kōkaku-tennō), was the 119th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Kōkaku reigned from 1779 until his abdication in 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 726,851 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Emperor Kōkaku is the 1,380th most popular politician (down from 1,251st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 44th in 2019) 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

Among politicians, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 1,380 out of 19,576. Before him are Leo IV the Khazar, Sam Nujoma, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Emperor Ninkō, Vlad II Dracul, and Amenemhat III. After him are Maria II of Portugal, Justinian II, Arghun, Henry I, Duke of Guise, Gyeongjong of Joseon, and Omar Bongo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1771, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 5. Before him are Walter Scott, Robert Owen, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, and Richard Trevithick. After him are Julie Clary, Antoine-Jean Gros, Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark, Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Alois Senefelder, and Marie François Xavier Bichat. Among people deceased in 1840, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 6. Before him are Niccolò Paganini, Caspar David Friedrich, Frederick William III of Prussia, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, and Lucien Bonaparte. After him are Siméon Denis Poisson, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, Jacques MacDonald, and Louis de Bonald.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 53 out of 6,245. Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Soichiro Honda (1906), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), and Emperor Ninkō (1800). After him are Tadao Ando (1941), Koxinga (1624), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), and Junji Nishikawa (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Kōkaku ranks 15. Before him are Itō Hirobumi (1841), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Takeda Shingen (1521), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), and Emperor Ninkō (1800). After him are Koxinga (1624), Emperor Suizei (-669), Fumio Kishida (1957), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Tomoe Gozen (1157), and Emperor Annei (-577).

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