LINGUIST

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 119,363 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Kunio Yanagita is the 111th most popular linguist (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from Japan (down from 889th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Linguist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kunio Yanagitas by language

Over the past year Kunio Yanagita has had the most page views in the with 181,929 views, followed by English (17,564), and Chinese (6,768). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (121.57%), Portuguese (72.46%), and Tagalog (59.60%)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Kunio Yanagita ranks 111 out of 214. Before him are Matteo Bartoli, Igor M. Diakonoff, Daniel Jones, Heinrich Hübschmann, Nakahama Manjirō, and Georg Curtius. After him are Renato Corsetti, John Florio, August Friedrich Pott, Jules Gilliéron, Hans Ørberg, and Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Kunio Yanagita ranks 108. Before him are Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Felix Hamrin, Laurence Doherty, J. Stuart Blackton, Alexander Goldenweiser, and Henri Callot. After him are Italo Montemezzi, Leonor Michaelis, Friedrich von Huene, William Hoyt, Otto Strandman, and Adolfo Díaz. Among people deceased in 1962, Kunio Yanagita ranks 112. Before him are Franz Kaiser, Raquel Meller, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and Donald Lippincott. After him are Josef Uridil, A. K. Fazlul Huq, Gary Hocking, Rudolf von Bünau, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and Sylvia Beach.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 1,012 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroji Imamura (1949), Shigesato Itoi (1948), Akira Kamiya (1946), Michitsuna's mother (935), Yasuhiro Yamashita (1957), and Yukio Kasaya (1943). After him are Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), and Damo Suzuki (1950).

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Among LINGUISTS In Japan

Among linguists born in Japan, Kunio Yanagita ranks 3. Before him are Kūkai (774), and Nakahama Manjirō (1827). After him are Takekazu Asaka (1952).

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