COMPANION

Empress Teimei

1884 - 1951

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Sadako Kujō (九条節子, Kujō Sadako, 25 June 1884 – 17 May 1951), posthumously honoured as Empress Teimei (貞明皇后, Teimei-kōgō), was the wife of Emperor Taishō and the mother of Emperor Shōwa. Her posthumous name, Teimei, means "enlightened constancy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Empress Teimei has received more than 552,641 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Empress Teimei is the 360th most popular companion (down from 340th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Japan (down from 259th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Companion.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Empress Teimei ranks 360 out of 784. Before her are Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany, Gunilla Bielke, Cornelia, Miqdad ibn Aswad, Maria Francisca of Savoy, and Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary. After her are Pat Nixon, Meketaten, Irene Doukaina, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Tanaquil, and Mercedes of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Empress Teimei ranks 46. Before her are Petru Groza, Antonín Zápotocký, Hugo Gernsback, Zinaida Serebriakova, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Maria Spiridonova. After her are Hugo Schmeisser, Princess Helen of Serbia, Louis B. Mayer, Béla Balázs, Halide Edib Adıvar, and Johan Laidoner. Among people deceased in 1951, Empress Teimei ranks 30. Before her are Óscar Carmona, Oswald Pohl, William Randolph Hearst, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Charles G. Dawes, and Andrei Platonov. After her are Sadegh Hedayat, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Kim Chaek, Émile Chartier, Erich Naumann, and Élie Cartan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Teimei ranks 306 out of 6,245. Before her are Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), Empress Masako (1963), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Ryōji Noyori (1938), Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442), and Emperor Sushun (520). After her are Ikkyū (1394), Nobuyoshi Araki (1940), Saitō Hajime (1844), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Emperor Fushimi (1265), and Waichiro Omura (1933).

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Among COMPANIONS In Japan

Among companions born in Japan, Empress Teimei ranks 3. Before her are Empress Kōjun (1903), and Empress Shōken (1849). After her are Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), and Olivia Lufkin (1979).

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