WRITER

Natsume Sōseki

1867 - 1916

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Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石, 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916), pen name Sōseki, born Natsume Kin'nosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natsume Sōseki has received more than 1,287,476 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Natsume Sōseki is the 476th most popular writer (up from 511th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 65th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Writer.

Natsume Sōseki is most famous for his novels "I Am a Cat" and "Botchan."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Natsume Sōseki ranks 476 out of 7,302. Before him are Athenaeus, Louise de La Vallière, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Livius Andronicus, Milena Jesenská, and Verner von Heidenstam. After him are Bohumil Hrabal, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Martial, W. B. Yeats, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Natsume Sōseki ranks 13. Before him are Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, and John Galsworthy. After him are Prince Maximilian of Baden, Walther Rathenau, Maxime Weygand, Johannes Fibiger, Władysław Reymont, and Pierre Bonnard. Among people deceased in 1916, Natsume Sōseki ranks 19. Before him are Richard Dedekind, Henry James, Sholem Aleichem, Charles de Foucauld, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, and Otto of Bavaria. After him are José Echegaray, Karl Schwarzschild, Elisabeth of Wied, Enrique Granados, Émile Verhaeren, and Charles Taze Russell.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Natsume Sōseki ranks 63 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), Junji Nishikawa (1907), Empress Michiko (1934), Mako (1933), and Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916). After him are Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Hideki Yukawa (1907), Kenzō Tange (1913), and Fumio Kishida (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Natsume Sōseki ranks 10. Before him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Osamu Dazai (1909), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892). After him are Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Kōbō Abe (1924), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Sei Shōnagon (966), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), and Masaru Emoto (1943).

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