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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 female writer of modern literature, specialising 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 287,268 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ichiyō Higuchi is the 1,447th most popular writer (up from 1,773rd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from Japan (up from 523rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 32

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  • 2.41

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  • 4.28

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 1,447 out of 5,755Before her are Wen Tianxiang, Dorothy Parker, Christian Morgenstern, Allen Carr, Tom Wolfe, and Sadriddin Ayni. After her are Rick Riordan, César Vallejo, Jules Laforgue, Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, and J. G. Ballard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 46Before her are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Ottokar Czernin, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Willem de Sitter, Marcel Renault, and Edward Gordon Craig. After her are Emily Davison, Kijūrō Shidehara, Akhmet Baitursynov, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Pío Baroja, and Vladimir Arsenyev. Among people deceased in 1896, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 25Before her are Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, John Langdon Down, Richard Avenarius, Frederic Leighton, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and Emil du Bois-Reymond. After her are Ernst Engel, Maurice de Hirsch, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Emma Darwin, Ante Starčević, and Ernst Curtius.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 346 out of 6,048Before her are Emperor Go-Toba (1180), Emperor Kōbun (648), Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347), Emperor Go-Nijō (1285), Emperor Sushun (520), and Ikkyū (1394). After her are Tanaka Giichi (1864), Takeshi Inoue (1928), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Emperor Toba (1103), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), and Emperor Go-Fushimi (1288).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 30Before her are Yosa Buson (1716), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Yosano Akiko (1878), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), and Ihara Saikaku (1642). After her are Ono no Komachi (825), Ryū Murakami (1952), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930).