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Emperor Montoku

827 - 858

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Emperor Montoku (文徳天皇, Montoku-tennō) (August 826 – 7 October 858) was the 55th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Montoku's reign lasted from 850 to 858. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emperor Montoku has received more than 138,484 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Emperor Montoku is the 5,423rd most popular politician (up from 6,136th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 439th in 2019) and the 154th most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Emperor Montoku ranks 5,423 out of 19,576Before him are Emperor Jingzong of Tang, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia, Chris Patten, D. F. Malan, Ichirō Hatoyama, and Godwin, Earl of Wessex. After him are Emperor Heizei, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, Burt Munro, Prisca, Mikhail of Tver, and Stjepan Vukčić Kosača.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 827, Emperor Montoku ranks 2Before him is Ibn al-Rawandi. After him is Ali ibn Muhammad. Among people deceased in 858, Emperor Montoku ranks 4Before him are Pope Benedict III, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, and Kenneth MacAlpin. After him are Li Shangyin, and Sedulius Scottus.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Emperor Montoku ranks 372 out of 6,245Before him are Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Ryū Murakami (1952), Emperor Nijō (1143), Kijūrō Shidehara (1872), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), and Yoshitoshi (1839). After him are Emperor Heizei (773), Ko Takamoro (1907), Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Hara Takashi (1856), and Usaburo Hidaka (null).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Emperor Montoku ranks 154Before him are Emperor Rokujō (1164), Emperor Kōbun (648), Emperor Konoe (1139), Emperor Nijō (1143), Kijūrō Shidehara (1872), and Ichirō Hatoyama (1883). After him are Emperor Heizei (773), Hara Takashi (1856), Tanaka Giichi (1864), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), and Enomoto Takeaki (1836).