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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 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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  • 230k

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  • 53.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kyōka Izumi ranks 2,392 out of 5,755Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Kyōka Izumi ranks 79Before 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 66Before 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.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 709 out of 6,048Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kyōka Izumi ranks 51Before 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).