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WRITER

Okakura Kakuzō

1862 - 1913

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Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉 覚三, February 14, 1863 – September 2, 1913), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs. Outside Japan, he is chiefly renowned for The Book of Tea: A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Okakura Kakuzō has received more than 221,666 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Okakura Kakuzō is the 2,417th most popular writer (up from 2,517th in 2019), the 719th most popular biography from Japan (up from 739th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 53.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Okakura Kakuzō ranks 2,417 out of 5,755. Before him are George Meredith, Slavenka Drakulić, Henry Darger, Paul Goodman, Cornelia Funke, and Tian Han. After him are Jørgen Moe, Jojo Moyes, Patrick Pearse, Jung Chang, Moses ibn Ezra, and Asconius Pedianus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Okakura Kakuzō ranks 67. Before him are Louis Botha, Sergei Nilus, Léon Boëllmann, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Theodor Boveri, and Wil van Gogh. After him are William Wallace Campbell, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Abram Arkhipov, Henri Le Sidaner, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, and Alexander Guchkov. Among people deceased in 1913, Okakura Kakuzō ranks 39. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Louis Paul Cailletet, Aurel Vlaicu, Carl Hagenbeck, and Ğabdulla Tuqay. After him are Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Émile Ollivier, Kâmil Pasha, Seth Carlo Chandler, and Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Okakura Kakuzō ranks 719 out of 6,048. Before him are Eiji Toyoda (1913), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Hayashi Razan (1583), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), and Yoshio Nishina (1890). After him are Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Keisuke Okada (1868), Katō Takaaki (1860), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), and Mie Hama (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Okakura Kakuzō ranks 53. Before him are Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Ueda Akinari (1734), Izumi Shikibu (976), Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Kyōka Izumi (1873), and Keigo Higashino (1958). After him are Amélie Nothomb (1967), Ryōkan (1758), Ariwara no Narihira (825), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), and Shūji Terayama (1935).

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