WRITER

Fumiko Enchi

1905 - 1986

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Fumiko Enchi (円地 文子, Enchi Fumiko, 2 October 1905 – 12 November 1986) was the pen-name of Fumiko Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Shōwa period of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fumiko Enchi has received more than 106,805 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Fumiko Enchi is the 2,770th most popular writer (up from 3,653rd in 2019), the 817th most popular biography from Japan (up from 980th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fumiko Enchi ranks 2,770 out of 7,302. Before her are John Zerzan, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Petr Chelčický, Rosario Castellanos, Abolqasem Lahouti, and Johannes Mario Simmel. After her are Robert Holdstock, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Tang Xianzu, Alexandre Herculano, Sibilla Aleramo, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Fumiko Enchi ranks 142. Before her are Ángel Bossio, Clarence Zener, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Sven Rydell, Louis Rosier, and Grigori Kozintsev. After her are Zdeněk Burian, Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, Jan Gies, Dmitri Shepilov, and Robert Penn Warren. Among people deceased in 1986, Fumiko Enchi ranks 112. Before her are Princess Anne of Orléans, Judith Resnik, Scatman Crothers, Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, and Dick Scobee. After her are James H. Wilkinson, Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, Helen B. Taussig, and Hoàng Văn Thái.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fumiko Enchi ranks 817 out of 6,245. Before her are Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Motobu Chōki (1870), Shūji Terayama (1935), Shigeru Kayano (1926), Yoshiki (1965), and Teruki Miyamoto (1940). After her are Magdalene of Nagasaki (1611), Kiko, Princess Akishino (1966), Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), Hide (1964), and Takehiko Inoue (1967).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Fumiko Enchi ranks 61. Before her are Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Banana Yoshimoto (1964), Yasushi Inoue (1907), Ryōkan (1758), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), and Shūji Terayama (1935). After her are Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934).

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