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Matsuo Bashō

1644 - 1694

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His biography is available in 163 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 159 in 2024). Matsuo Bashō is the 39th most popular writer (up from 96th in 2024), the 2nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Writer.

Matsuo Bashō is most famous for his work "Oku no Hosomichi" which is a travelogue of his journey through Japan.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Matsuo Bashō ranks 39 out of 7,302. Before him are Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, George Orwell, and Charles Dickens. After him are Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Alexander Pushkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1644, Matsuo Bashō ranks 1. After him are Antonio Stradivari, Ole Rømer, Henrietta of England, Louise de La Vallière, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Jakob Ammann, Louis-François de Boufflers, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, and Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha. Among people deceased in 1694, Matsuo Bashō ranks 2. Before him is Mary II of England. After him are Marcello Malpighi, Samuel von Pufendorf, Natalya Naryshkina, Antoine Arnauld, Francesco Morosini, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Suleiman of Persia, John George IV, Elector of Saxony, Hishikawa Moronobu, and Pierre Puget.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Matsuo Bashō ranks 2 out of NaN. Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536).

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Among Writers In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Matsuo Bashō ranks 1. After him are Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Sei Shōnagon (966).

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