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Nobuko Yoshiya

1896 - 1973

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Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋 信子, Yoshiya Nobuko, 12 January 1896 – 11 July 1973) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobuko Yoshiya has received more than 120,587 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Nobuko Yoshiya is the 3,457th most popular writer (down from 3,071st in 2019), the 938th most popular biography from Japan (down from 850th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 50.21

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.13

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  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 3,457 out of 5,755Before her are Francesco de Sanctis, Pavel Bazhov, Siegfried Sassoon, Marianne Moore, Ramón Chao, and Jaroslav Vrchlický. After her are Vasily Trediakovsky, Mikayel Nalbandian, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, George the Hagiorite, Zsigmond Móricz, and Bonaventure des Périers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 141Before her are Raymond Massey, Josephine Tey, Alberto Demicheli, Peter Cheyney, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, and Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven. After her are William Cameron Menzies, Friedrich Sämisch, Rafael Franco, Marguerite Laugier, Lester Germer, and Philippe Étancelin. Among people deceased in 1973, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 145Before her are Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Aleksandr Ptushko, Mikhail Isakovsky, Ira Sprague Bowen, Adolfo Zumelzú, and Sergei Tumansky. After her are Rafael Franco, Ramón de la Fuente Leal, Kid Ory, Harold Hotelling, Gustaf Molander, and Willy Fritsch.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 938 out of 6,048Before her are Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), Mitsuo Kamata (1937), Toru Iwatani (1955), Kazuki Takahashi (1961), and Abe Masahiro (1819). After her are Noriaki Kasai (1972), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), and Megumi Hayashibara (1967).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 82Before her are Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Itō Noe (1895), Ennin (793), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Natsuo Kirino (1951), and Ai Yazawa (1967). After her are Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Fumiko Enchi (1905), Masuji Ibuse (1898), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), and Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859).