WRITER

Saigyō

1118 - 1190

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Saigyō Hōshi (西行法師, 1118 – March 23, 1190) was a Japanese poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saigyō has received more than 100,653 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Saigyō is the 2,262nd most popular writer (down from 2,141st in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 636th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sanka shū
Waka, Japanese poetry
1928
Saigyō zenshū
1981
Saigyo zenkashu (Shintensha sosho)
1981
Sanka wakash
1915
Saigyō Hōshi gyōjō emaki
Art, Japanese Narrative painting, Japanese Scrolls
1995
Saigyō kashū
1948
Saigyō zenshū
1981
Sankashū
1961
Saigyo zenkashu (Shintensha sosho)
1981
Sanka shū
Waka, Japanese poetry
1903
Saigyō kashū
1948
Sanka wakashū
Waka
1926

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saigyō ranks 2,262 out of 7,302. Before her are Johann Nestroy, Édouard Drumont, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Alois Jirásek, and Inger Christensen. After her are Umberto Saba, Jeppe Aakjær, Konstantin Balmont, Andrey Kurkov, Patrick Pearse, and Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1118, Saigyō ranks 5. Before her are Manuel I Komnenos, Andronikos I Komnenos, Taira no Kiyomori, and Ahmad al-Rifaʽi. After her are Odo II, Duke of Burgundy, and Ioveta. Among people deceased in 1190, Saigyō ranks 8. Before her are Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, Bernart de Ventadorn, Isabella of Hainault, Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, Godfrey III, Count of Louvain, and Floris III, Count of Holland. After her are Maria Komnene, Queen of Hungary, Louis III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Theodore Balsamon, Anvari, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, and Dominicus Gundissalinus.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Saigyō ranks 682 out of 6,245. Before her are Katō Takaaki (1860), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Gotō Shinpei (1857), and Yoshio Fujiwara (null). After her are Tōdō Takatora (1556), Matome Ugaki (1890), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Motoori Norinaga (1730), and Mie Hama (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Saigyō ranks 45. Before her are Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Atsushi Nakajima (1909), Keigo Higashino (1958), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), and Katsu Kaishū (1823). After her are Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Ueda Akinari (1734), Izumi Shikibu (976), Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Ikki Kita (1883), and Ariwara no Narihira (825).

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