RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kōdō Sawaki

1880 - 1965

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Kodo Sawaki (沢木 興道, Sawaki Kōdō, June 16, 1880 – December 21, 1965) was a prominent Japanese Sōtō Zen teacher of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kōdō Sawaki has received more than 96,422 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kōdō Sawaki is the 1,653rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,506th in 2019), the 741st most popular biography from Japan (down from 690th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 96k

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  • 54.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kōdō Sawaki ranks 1,653 out of 3,187. Before him are John Ball, Fernando Ocáriz Braña, Emil Krebs, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Antonio Cañizares Llovera, and Jan Łaski. After him are Morteza Motahhari, Barbara West, Saint Aurelius, Pietro Riario, Frederick William Franz, and Santos Abril y Castelló.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Kōdō Sawaki ranks 89. Before him are Ildebrando Pizzetti, Lincoln Ellsworth, Carl Van Vechten, Leonard Woolf, Gabriel Voisin, and Christabel Pankhurst. After him are Zequinha de Abreu, Mihail Sadoveanu, Waldemar Bonsels, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Princess Thyra of Denmark, and Azim Azimzade. Among people deceased in 1965, Kōdō Sawaki ranks 79. Before him are George Adamski, Ellen Church, Lionel Terray, Roberto Cherro, Tito Schipa, and Alfredo Guzzoni. After him are Louis Harold Gray, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Abraham Fraenkel, Wilhelm Worringer, Boris Barnet, and Princess Pauline of Württemberg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōdō Sawaki ranks 741 out of 6,245. Before him are George Ohsawa (1893), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Soga no Umako (551), Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394), and Torii Kiyonaga (1752). After him are Ōtomo Sōrin (1530), Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Koichi Oita (1914), Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), and Tsutomu Miyazaki (1962).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Kōdō Sawaki ranks 21. Before him are Shinran (1173), Senhime (1597), Hōnen (1133), Hōjō Ujimasa (1538), Taisen Deshimaru (1914), and Soga no Umako (551). After him are Magdalene of Nagasaki (1611), Moriteru Ueshiba (1951), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Peter Doi (1892), and Shunryū Suzuki (1904).

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