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Ihara Saikaku

1642 - 1693

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Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi). His born name may have been Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, and he first studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ihara Saikaku has received more than 188,652 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ihara Saikaku is the 1,427th most popular writer (down from 1,383rd in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Japan (down from 318th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ihara Saikaku ranks 1,427 out of 7,302. Before him are Du Mu, Jane Hawking, Chico Xavier, Else Lasker-Schüler, Fran Krsto Frankopan, and Károly Kerényi. After him are Marcel Aymé, Karin Boye, Torben Ulrich, Rafael Alberti, Ivan Vazov, and Branko Ćopić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1642, Ihara Saikaku ranks 8. Before him are Suleiman II, Gülnuş Sultan, Johann Christoph Bach, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shitao, and André Charles Boulle. After him are Andrea Pozzo, Seki Takakazu, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, and Zheng Jing. Among people deceased in 1693, Ihara Saikaku ranks 6. Before him are Mehmed IV, Madame de La Fayette, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, and Willem Kalf. After him are Nicolaes Maes, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, and John de Britto.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ihara Saikaku ranks 376 out of 6,245. Before him are Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), Yoshitoshi (1839), Emperor Montoku (827), Emperor Heizei (773), Ko Takamoro (1907), and Masahiro Hamazaki (1940). After him are Hara Takashi (1856), Usaburo Hidaka (null), Tanaka Giichi (1864), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Sada Abe (1905), and Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ihara Saikaku ranks 30. Before him are Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Chūya Nakahara (1907), and Ryū Murakami (1952). After him are Ono no Komachi (825), Junji Ito (1963), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), and Masaoka Shiki (1867).

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