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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 136,622 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Motoori Norinaga is the 754th most popular philosopher (up from 786th in 2019), the 665th most popular biography from Japan (up from 718th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Motoori Norinaga ranks 754 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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Japan

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).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Motoori Norinaga ranks 6. Before him are Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Kitaro Nishida (1870), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), and George Ohsawa (1893). After him are Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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