WRITER

Ichiyō Higuchi

1872 - 1896

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Natsuko Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口 夏子, Hepburn: Higuchi Natsuko, 2 May 1872 – 23 November 1896), known by her pen name Higuchi Ichiyō (樋口 一葉), was a Japanese writer during the Meiji era. She was Japan's first professional woman writer of modern literature, specializing in short stories and poetry, and was also an extensive diarist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ichiyō Higuchi has received more than 313,816 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ichiyō Higuchi is the 1,262nd most popular writer (up from 1,444th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 344th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 3.87

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 1,262 out of 7,302. Before her are Bâkî, Alexander Afanasyev, Clive Cussler, Roland Topor, Jan Kochanowski, and Sharafkhan Bidlisi. After her are Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmas of Prague, Lu Yu, Kassia, Stobaeus, and Yeghishe Charents.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 37. Before her are Archduke Joseph August of Austria, José Sanjurjo, Habibullah Khan, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Emily Davison, and Hugo Alfvén. After her are Willem de Sitter, Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, Édouard Herriot, Marcel Renault, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Among people deceased in 1896, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 22. Before her are Edmond de Goncourt, Louis-Jules Trochu, Richard Avenarius, Ambroise Thomas, John Langdon Down, and Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours. After her are Prince Henry of Battenberg, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Frederic Leighton, Maurice de Hirsch, Ante Starčević, and Heinrich von Treitschke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 292 out of 6,245. Before her are Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Emperor Bidatsu (538), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), and Emperor Go-Nijō (1285). After her are Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Emperor Yūryaku (418), Akira Nozawa (1914), Chūya Nakahara (1907), and Kunitaka Sueoka (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 27. Before her are Shūsaku Endō (1923), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Yosano Akiko (1878), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), and Yosa Buson (1716). After her are Chūya Nakahara (1907), Ryū Murakami (1952), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ono no Komachi (825), Junji Ito (1963), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930).

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