1872 - 1896
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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Among writers, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 1,447 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1236 - 1283
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 1,441
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 1,442
1871 - 1914
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,443
1934 - 2006
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 1,444
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 1,445
1878 - 1954
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 1,446
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,447
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,448
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,449
1860 - 1887
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 1,450
405 - 451
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,451
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,452
1930 - 2009
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,453
Among people born in 1872, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 46. Before 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 25. Before 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.
1872 - 1942
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 40
1872 - 1932
HPI: 59.33
Rank: 41
1872 - 1938
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 42
1872 - 1934
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 43
1872 - 1903
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 44
1872 - 1966
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 45
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 46
1872 - 1913
HPI: 57.88
Rank: 47
1872 - 1951
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 48
1872 - 1937
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 49
1872 - 1954
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 50
1872 - 1956
HPI: 57.32
Rank: 51
1872 - 1930
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 52
1814 - 1896
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 19
1828 - 1896
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 20
1843 - 1896
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 21
1830 - 1896
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 22
1858 - 1896
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 23
1818 - 1896
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 24
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 25
1821 - 1896
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 26
1831 - 1896
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 27
1809 - 1896
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 28
1808 - 1896
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 29
1823 - 1896
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 30
1814 - 1896
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 31
Among people born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 346 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1180 - 1239
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 340
648 - 672
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 341
1347 - 1424
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 342
1285 - 1308
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 343
520 - 592
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 344
1394 - 1481
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 345
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 346
1864 - 1929
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 347
1928 - 1992
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 348
1943 - 1960
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 349
1103 - 1156
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 350
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 351
1288 - 1336
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 352
Among writers born in Japan, Ichiyō Higuchi ranks 30. Before 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).
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 24
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 25
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 26
1907 - 1937
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 27
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 28
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 29
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 30
825 - 900
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 31
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 32
1653 - 1725
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 33
1192 - 1219
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 34
1867 - 1902
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 35
1930 - 2015
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 36