WRITER

Kyōka Izumi

1873 - 1939

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Kyōtarō Izumi (泉 鏡太郎, Izumi Kyōtarō, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), known by his pen name Izumi Kyōka (泉 鏡花, Izumi Kyōka), was a Japanese novelist, writer and kabuki playwright who was active during the prewar period. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kyōka Izumi has received more than 255,709 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kyōka Izumi is the 2,062nd most popular writer (up from 2,385th in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Japan (up from 707th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kyōka Izumi ranks 2,062 out of 7,302. Before him are Vassilis Vassilikos, Mago, Catherine Breillat, Sergio Badilla Castillo, Marcellinus Comes, and Keigo Higashino. After him are Oscar Milosz, Honoré d'Urfé, Jørgen Moe, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Vladimír Clementis, and Nihal Atsız.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Kyōka Izumi ranks 71. Before him are Elena Stasova, Valery Bryusov, Sidney Reilly, Hasan Prishtina, Rudolf Rocker, and Sante Geronimo Caserio. After him are Józef Haller, Félix d'Herelle, Margaret Bondfield, Louis Feuillade, Alexey Shchusev, and Iuliu Maniu. Among people deceased in 1939, Kyōka Izumi ranks 54. Before him are Kolë Idromeno, Eugen Weidmann, Bronisława Dłuska, Arthur Rackham, Edvard Westermarck, and Xu Shichang. After him are Oscar Milosz, Yevgeny Miller, Konstantin Korovin, Havelock Ellis, S. S. Van Dine, and Isaak Brodsky.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 626 out of 6,245. Before him are Kaneto Shindo (1912), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), and Keigo Higashino (1958). After him are Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Tadao Takayama (1904), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Koji Miyata (1923), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), and Giant Baba (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 42. Before him are Masaoka Shiki (1867), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), and Keigo Higashino (1958). After him are Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Saigyō (1118), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Ueda Akinari (1734), and Izumi Shikibu (976).

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