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 and publisher. 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 86,817 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Kan Kikuchi is the 3,254th most popular writer (down from 3,176th in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Japan (down from 877th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 87k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

蘭学事始
Shinju fujin
Upper class women, Fiction
2002
アラビヤンナイト
La patro revenas
1927
芥川の事ども

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kan Kikuchi ranks 3,254 out of 7,302. Before him are Kekaumenos, Frances Burney, Gabriela Zapolska, Manès Sperber, Claude Bourgelat, and Kosta Khetagurov. After him are Gregory Benford, Jacques Delille, Oles Honchar, Emile Habibi, R. K. Narayan, and Arnošt Muka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Kan Kikuchi ranks 126. Before him are Friedrich Wolf, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Antonio Ascari, Francisco Canaro, Viktor Kingissepp, and Joachim Lemelsen. After him are Barry Fitzgerald, Kaarel Eenpalu, Mary Eristavi, Lotte Lehmann, Thomas C. Kinkaid, and Pavel Peter Gojdič. Among people deceased in 1948, Kan Kikuchi ranks 105. Before him are Karl Valentin, Charles Evans Hughes, Alfred Kerr, Vicente Huidobro, Monteiro Lobato, and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres. After him are Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Aldo Leopold, Richard Tauber, Eugen Slutsky, Hulusi Behçet, and Avetis Aharonian.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 935 out of 6,245. Before him are Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Takuya Kimura (1972), Tadao Onishi (1943), and Shōji Nishimura (1889). After him are Tomomi Seo (1950), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Takeshi Obata (1969), and Ryuzo Shimizu (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kan Kikuchi ranks 73. Before him are Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Yūko Tsushima (1947), Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), and Naoya Shiga (1883). After him are Futabatei Shimei (1864), Ai Yazawa (1967), Itō Noe (1895), Kafū Nagai (1879), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), and Ennin (793).

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