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Miyamoto Musashi

1584 - 1645

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Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Musashi is considered a Kensei, a sword-saint of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miyamoto Musashi has received more than 7,234,418 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Miyamoto Musashi is the 84th most popular writer (up from 104th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Japan (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Writer.

Miyamoto Musashi is most famous for being a samurai and his book The Book of Five Rings.

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  • 7.2M

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  • 77.73

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  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miyamoto Musashi ranks 84 out of 5,755Before him are Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, Paulo Coelho, Nikolai Gogol, Stephen King, and Jonathan Swift. After him are Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Selma Lagerlöf, Virginia Woolf, Maxim Gorky, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, Miyamoto Musashi ranks 1After him are Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, William Baffin, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Francisco de Quevedo, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, Yuan Chonghuan, Matthias Gallas, Herman Wrangel, Cornelis de Vos, Melchior Grodziecki, and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent. Among people deceased in 1645, Miyamoto Musashi ranks 1After him are Hugo Grotius, Michael of Russia, Francisco de Quevedo, Li Zicheng, William Laud, Nur Jahan, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Marie de Gournay, Anthony van Diemen, Feng Menglong, and Eudoxia Streshneva.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Miyamoto Musashi ranks 6 out of 6,048Before him are Hirohito (1901), Hokusai (1760), Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), and Hayao Miyazaki (1941). After him are Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Miyamoto Musashi ranks 1After him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).