1896 - 1933
Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治, Miyazawa Kenji, 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and writer of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.Some of his major works include Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kaze no Matasaburō, Gauche the Cellist, and The Night of Taneyamagahara. Miyazawa converted to Nichiren Buddhism after reading the Lotus Sutra, and joined the Kokuchūkai, a Nichiren Buddhist organization. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenji Miyazawa has received more than 474,915 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Kenji Miyazawa is the 1,376th most popular writer (up from 1,464th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Japan (up from 372nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Japanese Writer.
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Among writers, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 1,376 out of 5,755. Before him are Diagoras of Melos, Avienus, Marie Anne Lenormand, Rodolphe Töpffer, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Salawat Yulayev. After him are Tomi Ungerer, Henry de Montherlant, Wilhelm Müller, Thornton Wilder, John Dryden, and Eva Schloss.
450 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 1,370
305 - 375
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 1,371
1772 - 1843
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,372
1799 - 1846
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,373
1869 - 1923
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 1,374
1754 - 1800
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 1,375
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,376
1931 - 2019
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 1,377
1895 - 1972
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 1,378
1794 - 1827
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,379
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 1,380
1631 - 1700
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 1,381
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 1,382
Among people born in 1896, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 65. Before him are Norodom Suramarit, Aleksei Antonov, Friedrich Hund, Henri de Lubac, Soghomon Tehlirian, and Michael Balint. After him are Karl August Wittfogel, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Morarji Desai, Heo Jeong, and Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff. Among people deceased in 1933, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 29. Before him are Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Hans Vaihinger. After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Raymond Roussel, Anagarika Dharmapala, Paul Painlevé, Anna de Noailles, and Mary Parker Follett.
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 59
1896 - 1962
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 60
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 61
1896 - 1991
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 62
1896 - 1960
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 63
1896 - 1970
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 64
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 65
1896 - 1988
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 66
1896 - 1980
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 67
1896 - 1967
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 68
1896 - 1995
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 69
1896 - 1988
HPI: 57.68
Rank: 70
1896 - 1944
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 71
1873 - 1933
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 23
1860 - 1933
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 24
1863 - 1933
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 25
1859 - 1933
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 26
1848 - 1933
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 27
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 28
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 29
1852 - 1933
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 30
1877 - 1933
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 31
1864 - 1933
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 32
1863 - 1933
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 33
1876 - 1933
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 34
1868 - 1933
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 35
Among people born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 314 out of 6,048. Before him are Jiro Miyake (1900), Hideaki Anno (1960), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Ko Takamoro (1907), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), and Ko Yong-hui (1952). After him are Yamato Takeru (72), Shigechiyo Izumi (1865), Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Emperor Fushimi (1265), Yoshio Okada (1926), and Ihara Saikaku (1642).
1900 - 1984
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 308
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 309
1835 - 1869
HPI: 58.48
Rank: 310
1907 - 1995
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 311
1537 - 1597
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 312
1952 - 2004
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 313
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 314
72 - 113
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 315
1865 - 1865
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 316
1920 - Present
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 317
1265 - 1317
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 318
1926 - 2002
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 319
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 320
Among writers born in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa ranks 28. Before him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Chūya Nakahara (1907). After him are Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ono no Komachi (825), Ryū Murakami (1952), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), and Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192).
1763 - 1828
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 22
1892 - 1962
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 23
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 24
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 25
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 26
1907 - 1937
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 27
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 28
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 29
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 30
825 - 900
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 31
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 32
1653 - 1725
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 33
1192 - 1219
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 34