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Motoori Norinaga

1730 - 1801

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Motoori Norinaga (本居 宣長, 21 June 1730 – 5 November 1801) was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Motoori Norinaga has received more than 158,799 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Motoori Norinaga is the 764th most popular philosopher (down from 743rd in 2019), the 687th most popular biography from Japan (down from 663rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Motoori Norinaga ranks 764 out of 1,267. Before him are Nisargadatta Maharaj, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Henry of Ghent, Wang Fuzhi, Jean Vanier, and Luigi Guido Grandi. After him are Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Paul de Lagarde, Sarada Devi, and Metrodorus of Chios.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Motoori Norinaga ranks 15. Before him are Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, Velu Nachiyar, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and William Hamilton. After him are Johann Hedwig, Pieter Boddaert, Otto Friedrich Müller, Augustin Pajou, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil. Among people deceased in 1801, Motoori Norinaga ranks 19. Before him are Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Sharaku, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, and Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Ignacy Krasicki, Franz Moritz von Lacy, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Daniel Chodowiecki, and Antoine de Rivarol.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 687 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Saigyō (1118), Tōdō Takatora (1556), Matome Ugaki (1890), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Shibusawa Eiichi (1840). After him are Mie Hama (1943), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Meiko Kaji (1947), and Fujiwara no Teika (1162).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 7. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Kitaro Nishida (1870), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), and Hayashi Razan (1583). After him are Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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