WRITER

Natsuo Kirino

1951 - Today

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Natsuo Kirino (桐野 夏生, Kirino Natsuo) (born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Natsuo Kirino has received more than 202,209 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Natsuo Kirino is the 3,556th most popular writer (down from 3,398th in 2019), the 996th most popular biography from Japan (down from 922nd in 2019) and the 85th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Yawaraka na hoho
1999
Gurotesuku
Social life and customs, Prostitutes, Fiction
2003
Real world
2009
Kao ni furikakaru ame
1993
2003
Out
Yakuza, Fiction, Japanese fiction
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.
2003

Page views of Natsuo Kirinos by language

Over the past year Natsuo Kirino has had the most page views in the with 82,829 views, followed by English (27,538), and Italian (6,628). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (1,172.67%), Portuguese (94.03%), and Catalan (58.82%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Natsuo Kirino ranks 3,556 out of 7,302. Before her are Onomacritus, Leslie Stephen, Charles Malik, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Gene Wolfe, and Angelos Sikelianos. After her are Tōson Shimazaki, Edith Durham, Joss Whedon, Oppian, Jorge de Montemor, and Louis Adamic.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Natsuo Kirino ranks 225. Before her are Viviane Reding, Rosa Montero, Catherine Hicks, David Vunagi, Tatyana Kazankina, and Gordon Liu. After her are Corey Yuen, Oleg Gazmanov, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bernie Marsden, Alexei Uchitel, and Muhammed Faris.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Natsuo Kirino ranks 996 out of 6,245. Before her are Nagayasu Honda (null), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Nakahama Manjirō (1827), and Jien (1155). After her are Akio Ōtsuka (1959), Takehito Koyasu (1967), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), and Kijirō Nambu (1869).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Natsuo Kirino ranks 85. Before her are Ennin (793), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), and Jien (1155). After her are Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Michitsuna's mother (935), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), and Masuji Ibuse (1898).

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