WRITER

Ennin

793 - 864

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Ennin (圓仁 or 円仁, 793 CE or 794 CE – 864 CE), better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師), was a priest of the Tendai school of Buddhism in Japan, and its third Zasu (座主, "Head of the Tendai Order"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ennin has received more than 75,420 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ennin is the 3,443rd most popular writer (down from 3,368th in 2019), the 973rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 912th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 75k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ennin ranks 3,443 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Kerr, Alberto Savinio, Nikola Vaptsarov, Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Andrey Piontkovsky, and Zulfiya. After him are Sanmao, Massimo Bontempelli, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Robert M. Parker Jr., David C. H. Austin, and Vladimir Megre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 793, Ennin ranks 1. After him is Theophylact. Among people deceased in 864, Ennin ranks 5. Before him are Pepin II of Aquitaine, Trpimir I of Croatia, Pietro Tradonico, and Yahya ibn Muhammad. After him is Humfrid.

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    Ennin

    WRITER

    793 - 864

    HPI: 58.28

    Rank: 1

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    Theophylact

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    793 - 849

    HPI: 50.49

    Rank: 2

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ennin ranks 973 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenzo Yokoyama (1943), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), and Akashi Motojiro (1864). After him are Kazuo Koike (1936), Abe Masahiro (1819), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Shinji Mikami (1965), and Machiko Hasegawa (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ennin ranks 79. Before him are Kan Kikuchi (1888), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Ai Yazawa (1967), Itō Noe (1895), Kafū Nagai (1879), and Nobuko Yoshiya (1896). After him are Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Jien (1155), and Natsuo Kirino (1951).

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