LINGUIST

Nakahama Manjirō

1827 - 1898

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Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎, January 27, 1827 – November 12, 1898), also known as John Manjirō (or John Mung), was a Japanese samurai and translator who was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the opening of Japan. He was a fisherman before his journey to the United States, where he studied English and navigation and became a sailor and gold miner. After returning to Japan, he was elevated to the status of a samurai and was made a hatamoto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nakahama Manjirō has received more than 231,199 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nakahama Manjirō is the 109th most popular linguist, the 994th most popular biography from Japan and the 2nd most popular Japanese Linguist.

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  • 51.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Nakahama Manjirō ranks 109 out of 214. Before him are Teun A. van Dijk, Joan Coromines, Matteo Bartoli, Igor M. Diakonoff, Daniel Jones, and Heinrich Hübschmann. After him are Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, Renato Corsetti, John Florio, August Friedrich Pott, and Jules Gilliéron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Nakahama Manjirō ranks 45. Before him are Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Amédée Courbet, Kusumoto Ine, Pierre Tirard, Henri Ernest Baillon, and Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Nikolay Beketov, Jacques-Louis Soret, Petko Slaveykov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, and Lydia Becker. Among people deceased in 1898, Nakahama Manjirō ranks 45. Before him are Tan Sitong, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, Edward Bellamy, and Adolfo Farsari. After him are Théodore Gouvy, Anton Seidl, Constance Lloyd, Louis Buffet, Tigran Chukhajian, and Miklós Barabás.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nakahama Manjirō ranks 994 out of 6,245. Before him are Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Akira Ifukube (1914), Nagayasu Honda (null), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), and Yasuzo Masumura (1924). After him are Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Akio Ōtsuka (1959), Takehito Koyasu (1967), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), and Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959).

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Among LINGUISTS In Japan

Among linguists born in Japan, Nakahama Manjirō ranks 2. Before him are Kūkai (774). After him are Kunio Yanagita (1875), and Takekazu Asaka (1952).

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