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Empress Go-Sakuramachi

1740 - 1813

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Toshiko (Japanese: 智子, 23 September 1740 – 24 December 1813), posthumously honored as Empress Go-Sakuramachi (後桜町天皇, Go-Sakuramachi-tennō) was the 117th monarch of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. She was named after her father Emperor Sakuramachi, with the word go (後) before her name translating in this context as "later" or "second one". Her reign during the Edo period spanned the years from 1762 through to her abdication in 1771. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Go-Sakuramachi has received more than 536,394 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Empress Go-Sakuramachi is the 2,270th most popular politician (down from 2,173rd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Japan (down from 86th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Politician.

Empress go-sakuramachi was most famous for being the wife of Emperor Sakuramachi.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Go-Sakuramachi ranks 2,270 out of 19,576Before her are Gustav Heinemann, Valdemar III of Denmark, Tiberius Claudius Nero, Adélaïde of France, James IV of Scotland, and Gennady Zyuganov. After her are Leopold V, Duke of Austria, Auguste Mariette, Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, Naoto Kan, Ricimer, and Otto Strasser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1740, Empress Go-Sakuramachi ranks 4Before her are Marquis de Sade, Ivan VI of Russia, and Giovanni Paisiello. After her are Isabelle de Charrière, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jeanne Baret, Johann van Beethoven, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Carl Michael Bellman, Giambattista Bodoni, and Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay. Among people deceased in 1813, Empress Go-Sakuramachi ranks 5Before her are Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mikhail Kutuzov, Józef Poniatowski, and Jean Victor Marie Moreau. After her are André Grétry, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Christoph Martin Wieland, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Tecumseh, and Rose Bertin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Go-Sakuramachi ranks 96 out of 6,245Before her are Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Kōbō Abe (1924), Kūkai (774), Emperor Itoku (-553), Prince Shōtoku (574), and Benkei (1155). After her are Naoto Kan (1946), Akira Suzuki (1930), Paulo Miki (1564), Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Empress Meishō (1624), and Sugawara no Michizane (845).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Empress Go-Sakuramachi ranks 26Before her are Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Himiko (175), Emperor Itoku (-553), and Prince Shōtoku (574). After her are Naoto Kan (1946), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Fumimaro Konoe (1891), Tarō Asō (1940), and Emperor Nakamikado (1702).