WRITER

Katsu Kaishū

1823 - 1899

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Count Katsu Yasuyoshi (勝 安芳) (born Katsu Yoshikuni (勝 義邦); March 12, 1823—January 21, 1899, best known by his nickname Katsu Kaishū (勝 海舟)) was a Japanese statesman, naval engineer and military commander during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period. Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū Shooku 海舟書屋) by Sakuma Shōzan. He went through a series of given names throughout his life; his childhood name was Rintarō (麟太郎). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katsu Kaishū has received more than 202,769 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Katsu Kaishū is the 2,167th most popular writer (up from 2,216th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Japan (down from 655th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 200k

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  • 55.63

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kaishū zadan
Politics and government
1928
Kaishū shokan, Kaishū ate shokan
1982
Shokan to kengen
1982
Katsu Kaishū kankei shiryō
Diaries, History
2002
Katsu Kaishū zenshū
1972
Hikawa seiwa
Statesmen, Biography, History
1972

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Katsu Kaishū ranks 2,167 out of 7,302. Before him are Ernst Robert Curtius, Al-Farazdaq, Phan Bội Châu, Michel Leiris, Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, and Isaac the Blind. After him are William of Moerbeke, Auguste Maquet, Nelson Algren, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Antimachus, and Herman Bang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Katsu Kaishū ranks 31. Before him are Pyotr Lavrov, Gotthold Eisenstein, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Joseph Monier, Jean Chacornac, and Giuseppe Fiorelli. After him are Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Marietta Alboni, and Enrico Betti. Among people deceased in 1899, Katsu Kaishū ranks 22. Before him are Ludwig Büchner, Othniel Charles Marsh, Edward Frankland, Charles Friedel, Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, and Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After him are Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Guido Gezelle, Emilio Castelar, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Garret Hobart, and Carl Millöcker.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Katsu Kaishū ranks 656 out of 6,245. Before him are Sōsuke Uno (1922), Hōnen (1133), Takeo Takagi (1892), Mariya Takeuchi (1955), Keisuke Okada (1868), and Emperor Sanjō (976). After him are Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866), Takashi Miike (1960), Shigenori Tōgō (1882), and Kazu Naoki (1918).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Katsu Kaishū ranks 44. Before him are Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Keigo Higashino (1958), Kyōka Izumi (1873), and Yoshida Kenkō (1283). After him are Saigyō (1118), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Ueda Akinari (1734), Izumi Shikibu (976), Ki no Tsurayuki (866), and Ikki Kita (1883).

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