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Mori Ōgai

1862 - 1922

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Lieutenant-General Mori Rintarō (森 林太郎, February 17, 1862 – July 8, 1922), known by his pen name Mori Ōgai (森 鷗外), was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori. He obtained his medical license at a very young age and introduced translated German language literary works to the Japanese public. Mori Ōgai also was considered the first to successfully express the art of western poetry in Japanese. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mori Ōgai has received more than 390,327 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Mori Ōgai is the 1,050th most popular writer (down from 827th in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from Japan (down from 109th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Writer.

Mori ōgai is most famous for its use in the Japanese tea ceremony. Mori ōgai is a type of tea bowl with a long, narrow neck and a flat base. The tea bowl is used to drink matcha, which is a type of powdered green tea.

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  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mori Ōgai ranks 1,050 out of 5,755. Before him are D. T. Suzuki, Meša Selimović, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Ernst Barlach, Fredric Brown, and Edmund Spenser. After him are Kobayashi Issa, Emil Ludwig, Alfred Brehm, Adalbert Stifter, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Erskine Caldwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Mori Ōgai ranks 31. Before him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prince Henry of Prussia, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Loie Fuller, Mary Kingsley, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. After him are Edith Wharton, Siegbert Tarrasch, Aurel Stein, Silvio Gesell, Maurice Barrès, and Georges Feydeau. Among people deceased in 1922, Mori Ōgai ranks 33. Before him are Paul Deschanel, Lothar von Richthofen, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Gabriel Narutowicz, and Catherine Dolgorukov. After him are Velimir Khlebnikov, Camille Jordan, Arthur Nikisch, Edmund Leighton, Giovanni Verga, and Rafael Moreno Aranzadi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mori Ōgai ranks 201 out of 6,048. Before him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), Yohji Yamamoto (1943), Kawakami Gensai (1834), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Masao Nozawa (null), and Katsura Tarō (1848). After him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Emperor Chūai (149), Empress Jingū (169), Takashi Shimura (1905), Masahiko Kimura (1917), and Saburō Sakai (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Mori Ōgai ranks 21. Before him are Kōbō Abe (1924), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Shoko Asahara (1955), and D. T. Suzuki (1870). After him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Yosano Akiko (1878), and Chūya Nakahara (1907).

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