1873 - 1939
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 225,572 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kyōka Izumi is the 2,392nd most popular writer (up from 2,436th in 2019), the 709th most popular biography from Japan (up from 713th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Japanese Writer.
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Among writers, Kyōka Izumi ranks 2,392 out of 5,755. Before him are António Vieira, Jim Corbett, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Guido Guinizelli, Jean Starobinski, and Parthenius of Nicaea. After him are Siri Hustvedt, Péter Esterházy, Keigo Higashino, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Menasseh Ben Israel.
1608 - 1697
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 2,386
1875 - 1955
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 2,387
1886 - 1913
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 2,388
1230 - 1276
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 2,389
1920 - 2019
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 2,390
1 BC - 14
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,391
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,392
1955 - Present
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,393
1950 - 2016
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 2,394
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,395
1532 - 1592
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,396
1880 - 1961
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 2,397
1604 - 1657
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 2,398
Among people born in 1873, Kyōka Izumi ranks 79. Before him are Leon Czolgosz, Iuliu Maniu, Louis Feuillade, Rudolf Rocker, Carl Flesch, and Gustaf John Ramstedt. After him are Dámaso Berenguer, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Richard Wilhelm, Leo Fall, and Henri Rabaud. Among people deceased in 1939, Kyōka Izumi ranks 66. Before him are Evald Aav, Arthur Rackham, S. S. Van Dine, Xu Shichang, Ma Rainey, and Max Skladanowsky. After him are Konstantin Somov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Henri Le Sidaner, Francisco León de la Barra, Charles Tournemire, and Archduke Leo Karl of Austria.
1873 - 1901
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 73
1873 - 1953
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 74
1873 - 1925
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 75
1873 - 1958
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 76
1873 - 1944
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 77
1873 - 1950
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 78
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 79
1873 - 1953
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 80
1873 - 1945
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 81
1873 - 1972
HPI: 53.15
Rank: 82
1873 - 1930
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 83
1873 - 1925
HPI: 52.78
Rank: 84
1873 - 1949
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 85
1900 - 1939
HPI: 54.33
Rank: 60
1867 - 1939
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 61
1888 - 1939
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 62
1855 - 1939
HPI: 53.97
Rank: 63
1886 - 1939
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 64
1863 - 1939
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 65
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 66
1869 - 1939
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 67
1878 - 1939
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 68
1862 - 1939
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 69
1863 - 1939
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 70
1870 - 1939
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 71
1893 - 1939
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 72
Among people born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 709 out of 6,048. Before him are Arawa Kimura (1931), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), and Shinya Yamanaka (1962). After him are Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), Keigo Higashino (1958), Emperor En'yū (959), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), and Shintaro Katsu (1931).
1931 - 2007
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 703
1884 - 1973
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 704
1543 - 1590
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 705
1752 - 1815
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 706
1686 - 1769
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 707
1962 - Present
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 708
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 709
1938 - Present
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 710
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 711
959 - 991
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 712
1913 - 2013
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 713
1931 - 2021
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 714
1931 - 1997
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 715
Among writers born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 51. Before him are George Ohsawa (1893), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Ueda Akinari (1734), Izumi Shikibu (976), and Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662). After him are Keigo Higashino (1958), Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Amélie Nothomb (1967), Ryōkan (1758), Ariwara no Narihira (825), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934).
1893 - 1966
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 45
1823 - 1899
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 46
866 - 945
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 47
1734 - 1809
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 48
976 - 1033
HPI: 53.94
Rank: 49
662 - 710
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 50
1873 - 1939
HPI: 53.72
Rank: 51
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.71
Rank: 52
1862 - 1913
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 53
1967 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 54
1758 - 1831
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 55
825 - 880
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 56
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 57