1730 - 1801
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 147,444 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Motoori Norinaga is the 743rd most popular philosopher (up from 786th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Japan (up from 718th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Motoori Norinaga ranks 743 out of 1,081. Before him are Arnold Ruge, Anniceris, John Cantius, Henry More, Paul de Lagarde, and Lucian Blaga. After him are Sarada Devi, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Onesicritus, Crates of Athens, Jean-Luc Marion, and Philipp Mainländer.
1802 - 1880
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 737
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 738
1390 - 1473
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 739
1614 - 1687
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 740
1827 - 1891
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 741
1895 - 1961
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 742
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 743
1853 - 1920
HPI: 54.23
Rank: 744
1903 - 1985
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 745
360 BC - 290 BC
HPI: 54.18
Rank: 746
400 BC - 268 BC
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 747
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.14
Rank: 748
1841 - 1876
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 749
Among people born in 1730, Motoori Norinaga ranks 16. Before him are Antonio Sacchini, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Velu Nachiyar, James Bruce, and William Hamilton. After him are Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, William Hudson, Augustin Pajou, Salomon Gessner, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and Otto Friedrich Müller. Among people deceased in 1801, Motoori Norinaga ranks 19. Before him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Sharaku, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain, Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Franz Moritz von Lacy. After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Ignacy Krasicki, Daniel Chodowiecki, Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, and Félix María de Samaniego.
1730 - 1786
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 10
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 11
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 12
1730 - 1796
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 13
1730 - 1794
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 14
1730 - 1803
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 15
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 16
1730 - 1807
HPI: 53.45
Rank: 17
1730 - 1793
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 18
1730 - 1809
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 19
1730 - 1788
HPI: 51.73
Rank: 20
1730 - 1782
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 21
1730 - 1784
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 22
1730 - 1801
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 13
1701 - 1801
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 14
1716 - 1801
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 15
1744 - 1801
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 16
1779 - 1801
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 17
1725 - 1801
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 18
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 19
1750 - 1801
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 20
1735 - 1801
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 21
1726 - 1801
HPI: 53.21
Rank: 22
1734 - 1801
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 23
1741 - 1801
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 24
1745 - 1801
HPI: 50.35
Rank: 25
Among people born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 665 out of 6,048. Before him are Hōjō Ujimasa (1538), Kikuzo Kisaka (null), Fusako Shigenobu (1945), Takashi Miike (1960), Emperor Reizei (949), and Shigeru Takahashi (null). After him are Tomohiko Ikoma (1932), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Eizo Yuguchi (1945), Emperor Horikawa (1079), and Shigeru Ban (1957).
1538 - 1590
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 659
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 660
1945 - Present
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 661
1960 - Present
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 662
949 - 1011
HPI: 54.27
Rank: 663
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 664
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 665
1932 - 2009
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 666
1658 - 1716
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 667
1837 - 1919
HPI: 54.20
Rank: 668
1945 - 2003
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 669
1079 - 1107
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 670
1957 - Present
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 671
Among philosophers born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 5. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Kitaro Nishida (1870), and Daisaku Ikeda (1928). After him are Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).
1835 - 1901
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 1
1913 - 2008
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 2
1870 - 1945
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 3
1928 - 2023
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 4
1730 - 1801
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 5
1686 - 1769
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 6
1583 - 1657
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 7
1657 - 1725
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 8
1666 - 1728
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 9