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Empress Kōken

718 - 770

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Empress Kōken (孝謙天皇, Kōken-tennō, 718 – August 28, 770), known as Empress Shōtoku (称徳天皇, Shōtoku-tennō) after her second accession to the throne, was the 46th (with the name Empress Kōken) and the 48th monarch of Japan (with the name Empress Shōtoku), according to the traditional order of succession. Both her reigns occurred during the Nara period. The daughter of Emperor Shōmu, Empress Kōken succeeded to the throne at the age of 31, following her father's renunciation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Kōken has received more than 261,887 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Empress Kōken is the 3,897th most popular politician (up from 4,576th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Empress Kōken ranks 3,897 out of 19,576. Before her are Taishi Ci, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Óscar Carmona, Manfred Rommel, and Stefan Uroš I. After her are Felix Kersten, Giorgia Meloni, Gabriel Bethlen, Ala ad-Din Tekish, Andrea Gritti, and Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 718, Empress Kōken ranks 4. Before her are Abu Muslim, Constantine V, and Ibrahim ibn Adham. After her are Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Lupus II of Gascony, and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Among people deceased in 770, Empress Kōken ranks 2. Before her is Du Fu. After her is Abe no Nakamaro.

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