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Kunio Yanagita

1875 - 1962

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Kunio Yanagita (柳田 國男, Yanagita Kunio, July 31, 1875 – August 8, 1962) was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunio Yanagita has received more than 120,857 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kunio Yanagita is the 100th most popular linguist (up from 103rd in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 935th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

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  • 50.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Kunio Yanagita ranks 100 out of 161. Before him are Matteo Bartoli, Albert Sechehaye, Hans Ørberg, Igor M. Diakonoff, Joan Coromines, and August Immanuel Bekker. After him are August Friedrich Pott, Lucien Tesnière, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Eugen Wüster, Louis Duchesne, and Heinrich Hübschmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kunio Yanagita ranks 97. Before him are Vladimir Filatov, Laurence Doherty, Leonor Michaelis, William Hoyt, Otto Ender, and J. Stuart Blackton. After him are Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Issai Schur, Ramiro de Maeztu, Felix Hamrin, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, and Reginald Punnett. Among people deceased in 1962, Kunio Yanagita ranks 100. Before him are Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, José Giral, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Max Vasmer, and Ahmad bin Yahya. After him are Carl Diem, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Franz Kaiser, Abdullah Goran, and Ernst Grünfeld.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 892 out of 6,048. Before him are Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Itō Noe (1895), On Kawara (1932), Yoshito Usui (1958), and Masashi Watanabe (1936). After him are Shoji Nishio (1927), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), and Hisashi Owada (1932).

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Among LINGUISTS In Japan

Among linguists born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 2. Before him are Kūkai (774). After him are Takekazu Asaka (1952).

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