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Empress Jingū

169 - 269

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Empress Jingū (神功皇后, Jingū-kōgō) was a legendary Japanese empress who ruled as a regent following her husband's death in 200 AD. Both the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki (collectively known as the Kiki) record events that took place during Jingū's alleged lifetime. Legends say that after seeking revenge on the people who murdered her husband, she then turned her attention to a "promised land." Jingū is thus considered to be a controversial monarch by historians in terms of her alleged invasion of the Korean Peninsula. This was in turn possibly used as justification for imperial expansion during the Meiji period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Jingū has received more than 541,773 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Empress Jingū is the 3,907th most popular politician (down from 3,850th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Japan (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Japanese Politician.

Empress Jingū is most famous for building the shrine, the Jingū, in honor of her father, Emperor Ōjin.

Memorability Metrics

  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Jingū ranks 3,907 out of 19,576Before her are Ala ad-Din Tekish, Andrea Gritti, Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, Miguel López de Legazpi, Violet Jessop, and Vladimir Ivashko. After her are Władysław II the Exile, Teispes, Chung Il-kwon, Henry, Count of Portugal, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, and Ovadia Yosef.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 169, Empress Jingū ranks 3Before her are Zhang Liao, and Xu Huang.  Among people deceased in 269, Empress Jingū ranks 2Before her is Postumus. After her are Marcus Aurelius Marius, and Laelianus.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Jingū ranks 220 out of 6,245Before her are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Emperor Hanzei (336), Emperor Chūai (149), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), and Emperor Shōkō (1401). After her are Takashi Shimura (1905), Emperor Sutoku (1119), Emperor Kenzō (450), Osamu Shimomura (1928), Kyu Sakamoto (1941), and Emperor Ankō (401).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Empress Jingū ranks 82Before her are Terauchi Masatake (1852), Kantarō Suzuki (1868), Emperor Hanzei (336), Emperor Chūai (149), Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464), and Emperor Shōkō (1401). After her are Emperor Sutoku (1119), Emperor Kenzō (450), Emperor Ankō (401), Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Fujiko Fujio (1934), and Amakusa Shirō (1621).