WRITER

Hiratsuka Raichō

1886 - 1971

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Hiratsuka Raichō (平塚 らいちょう, transliterated らいてう according to the historical kana orthography; born Hiratsuka Haru, 平塚 明; February 10, 1886 – May 24, 1971) was a Japanese writer, journalist, political activist, anarchist, and pioneering feminist in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiratsuka Raichō has received more than 75,230 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hiratsuka Raichō is the 3,485th most popular writer (down from 3,392nd in 2019), the 984th most popular biography from Japan (down from 917th in 2019) and the 81st most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 75k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hiratsuka Raichō ranks 3,485 out of 7,302. Before her are Misuzu Kaneko, Moritz Steinschneider, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, John Boyne, Orhan Veli Kanık, and Jurij Brězan. After her are Gary Snyder, Andrejs Pumpurs, Roger Vailland, Immanuel Velikovsky, Tim Krabbé, and Justus Jonas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hiratsuka Raichō ranks 172. Before her are Mikhail Tereshchenko, Rudolf Belling, Ion Gigurtu, Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, H.D., and Kálmán Darányi. After her are Ernest Burgess, Grigory Neujmin, Othmar Schoeck, Aloïse Corbaz, Siegfried Sassoon, and Felix Timmermans. Among people deceased in 1971, Hiratsuka Raichō ranks 119. Before her are Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Josef Košťálek, Armando Picchi, Kathleen Lonsdale, and Nikola Kotkov. After her are Dimitrios Loundras, Carlos P. Garcia, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Joseph Helffrich, Guillermo León Valencia, and William Tubman.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiratsuka Raichō ranks 984 out of 6,245. Before her are Shinji Mikami (1965), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Yoko Shimada (1953), Yukio Goto (null), and Yasuhiko Okudera (1952). After her are Tarō Okamoto (1911), Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Makino Nobuaki (1861), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Akira Ifukube (1914), and Nagayasu Honda (null).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hiratsuka Raichō ranks 81. Before her are Ai Yazawa (1967), Itō Noe (1895), Kafū Nagai (1879), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Ennin (793), and Misuzu Kaneko (1903). After her are Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), and Michitsuna's mother (935).

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