1879 - 1959
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.
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Among writers, Kafū Nagai ranks 3,154 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1885 - 1938
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 3,148
1510 - 1563
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 3,149
1746 - 1817
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 3,150
1911 - 1985
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 3,151
1927 - 2003
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 3,152
1899 - 1966
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 3,153
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 3,154
1909 - 1996
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 3,155
1873 - 1939
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 3,156
1849 - 1887
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 3,157
1840 - 1900
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 3,158
1874 - 1938
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 3,159
1893 - 1975
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 3,160
Among people born in 1879, Kafū Nagai ranks 113. Before 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 86. Before 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.
1879 - 1941
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 107
1879 - 1964
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 108
1879 - 1972
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 109
1879 - 1958
HPI: 51.40
Rank: 110
1879 - 1925
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 111
1879 - 1951
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 112
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 113
1879 - 1947
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 114
1879 - 1955
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 115
1879 - 1950
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 116
1879 - 1970
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 117
1879 - 1965
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 118
1879 - 1965
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 119
1872 - 1959
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 80
1864 - 1959
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 81
1919 - 1959
HPI: 51.63
Rank: 82
1891 - 1959
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 83
1883 - 1959
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 84
1894 - 1959
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 85
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 86
1900 - 1959
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 87
1877 - 1959
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 88
1938 - 1959
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 89
1865 - 1959
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 90
1879 - 1959
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 91
1890 - 1959
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 92
Among people born in Japan, Kafū Nagai ranks 873 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1872 - 1943
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 867
1733 - 1795
HPI: 51.25
Rank: 868
1864 - 1909
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 869
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 870
1928 - 2013
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 871
1967 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 872
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 873
1533 - 1587
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 874
1868 - 1903
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 875
1927 - 2019
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 876
1936 - 2019
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 877
1942 - Present
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 878
1951 - 2009
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 879
Among writers born in Japan, Kafū Nagai ranks 73. Before 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).
718 - 785
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 67
1878 - 1923
HPI: 51.53
Rank: 68
1903 - 1951
HPI: 51.42
Rank: 69
1947 - 1991
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 70
1872 - 1943
HPI: 51.26
Rank: 71
1864 - 1909
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 72
1879 - 1959
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 73
1868 - 1903
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 74
1888 - 1948
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 75
1923 - 1996
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 76
1895 - 1923
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 77
793 - 864
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 78
1886 - 1971
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 79