POLITICIAN

Hōjō Masako

1156 - 1225

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Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1157 – August 16, 1225) was a Japanese politician who exercised significant power in the early years of the Kamakura period, which was reflected by her contemporary sobriquet of the "nun shogun". She was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, and mother of Minamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo, the first, second and third shoguns of the Kamakura shogunate, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hōjō Masako has received more than 292,308 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Hōjō Masako is the 5,542nd most popular politician (down from 4,506th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Japan (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 162nd most popular Japanese Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

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  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hōjō Masako ranks 5,542 out of 19,576. Before her are Antonio Tajani, Lucius Antonius, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Nubar Pasha, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, and Yoshirō Mori. After her are Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Carlos Andrés Pérez, François Fillon, Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and Duke Pius August in Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1156, Hōjō Masako ranks 4. Before her are Kuchlug, Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, and Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony. After her is Magnus V of Norway. Among people deceased in 1225, Hōjō Masako ranks 7. Before her are Jebe, Al-Nasir, Comtessa de Dia, Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din, Arnaud Amalric, and Ma Yuan. After her are Angelus of Jerusalem, Engelbert II of Berg, Jien, and Adolf III of Holstein.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hōjō Masako ranks 388 out of 6,245. Before her are Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Akira Yoshino (1948), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Yoshirō Mori (1937). After her are Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), Shigeo Sugimoto (1926), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), and Yukiya Amano (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Hōjō Masako ranks 162. Before her are Hara Takashi (1856), Tanaka Giichi (1864), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), and Yoshirō Mori (1937). After her are Tokugawa Ienari (1773), Emperor Juntoku (1197), Tetsu Katayama (1887), Emperor Ninmyō (808), Emperor Go-Reizei (1025), and Ii Naomasa (1561).

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