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WRITER

Kan Kikuchi

1888 - 1948

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Hiroshi Kikuchi (菊池 寛, Kikuchi Hiroshi, December 26, 1888 – March 6, 1948), also known as Kan Kikuchi (which uses the same kanji as his real name), was a Japanese author. He established the publishing company Bungeishunjū, the monthly magazine of the same name, the Japan Writer's Association and both the Akutagawa and Naoki Prize for popular literature. He came to prominence for the plays "Madame Pearl" and "Father Returns", but his ample support for the Imperial Japanese war effort led to his marginalization in the postwar period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kan Kikuchi has received more than 81,545 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kan Kikuchi is the 3,188th most popular writer (down from 2,925th in 2019), the 880th most popular biography from Japan (down from 828th in 2019) and the 75th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 82k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kan Kikuchi ranks 3,188 out of 5,755. Before him are Sven Aggesen, Salama Moussa, Walter Map, Chariton, Eutychius of Alexandria, and Dámaso Alonso. After him are Elbert Hubbard, Nevil Shute, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Krišjānis Barons, Ignacio Ramonet, and Rubem Fonseca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Kan Kikuchi ranks 125. Before him are Josef Beran, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Léon Scieur, Lotte Lehmann, Harald Sverdrup, and Árpád Szakasits. After him are Nereu Ramos, Sophus Nielsen, Frances Marion, Barry Fitzgerald, Milán Füst, and Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. Among people deceased in 1948, Kan Kikuchi ranks 98. Before him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Manuel Roxas, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Richard C. Tolman, Charles Evans Hughes, and Richard Tauber. After him are May Whitty, Lizzie Magie, August Hlond, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, Fred Niblo, and František Svoboda.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 880 out of 6,048. Before him are Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Sadako Ogata (1927), Kazuo Koike (1936), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), and Kazumi Takada (1951). After him are Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Takehito Koyasu (1967), Seiichi Sakiya (1950), and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 75. Before him are Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Kafū Nagai (1879), and Ozaki Kōyō (1868). After him are Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Itō Noe (1895), Ennin (793), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Natsuo Kirino (1951), and Ai Yazawa (1967).

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