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WRITER

Kafū Nagai

1879 - 1959

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Kafū Nagai (永井 荷風, Nagai Kafū, 3 December 1879 – 30 April 1959) was a Japanese writer, editor and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kafū Nagai has received more than 78,487 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Kafū Nagai is the 3,154th most popular writer (down from 3,117th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 78k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kafū Nagai ranks 3,154 out of 5,755Before him are Abdurauf Fitrat, Martynas Mažvydas, Jean-Sifrein Maury, René Barjavel, Ahmadou Kourouma, and C. S. Forester. After him are Léo Malet, Ford Madox Ford, Emma Lazarus, Francišak Bahuševič, Leopoldo Lugones, and Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Kafū Nagai ranks 113Before him are Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Friedrich Christiansen, Vittorio Ambrosio, Yevgenia Bosch, and Bernhard Kellermann. After him are Petar Živković, Wallace Stevens, Adolf Wiklund, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Mostafa El-Nahas, and Clemente Micara. Among people deceased in 1959, Kafū Nagai ranks 86Before him are Bak Jungyang, George Albert Smith, Henri Vidal, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Giovanni Pastrone, and Aleksandr Khinchin. After him are Charles Vidor, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Starkweather, Bernard Berenson, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, and Phetsarath Ratanavongsa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kafū Nagai ranks 873 out of 6,048Before him are Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), and Takehiko Inoue (1967). After him are Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Sadako Ogata (1927), Kazuo Koike (1936), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), and Kazumi Takada (1951).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kafū Nagai ranks 73Before him are Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), and Futabatei Shimei (1864). After him are Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Itō Noe (1895), Ennin (793), and Hiratsuka Raichō (1886).