POLITICIAN

Sakuma Shōzan

1811 - 1864

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Sakuma Shōzan (佐久間 象山) (sometimes called Sakuma Zōzan; March 22, 1811 – August 12, 1864) was a Japanese politician and scholar of the Edo period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakuma Shōzan has received more than 148,215 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sakuma Shōzan is the 11,279th most popular politician (down from 10,843rd in 2019), the 930th most popular biography from Japan (down from 878th in 2019) and the 302nd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sakuma Shōzan ranks 11,279 out of 19,576Before him are Julius Leber, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, and Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Aquitaine. After him are Publius Valerius Laevinus, José Napoleón Duarte, André Marie, Émile Fayolle, Tigranes VI of Armenia, and Powhatan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Sakuma Shōzan ranks 47Before him are Peter Julian Eymard, William Robert Grove, Carl Johan Thyselius, John William Draper, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and J. C. Jacobsen. After him are Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Horace Greeley, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, François Delsarte, James Young Simpson, and Johann Dzierzon. Among people deceased in 1864, Sakuma Shōzan ranks 42Before him are Pedro Santana, Luke Howard, Archduke Louis of Austria, Nassau William Senior, Imre Madách, and George M. Dallas. After him are Charles Julien Brianchon, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Simon von Stampfer, Romuald Traugutt, and Gaetano Bedini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakuma Shōzan ranks 930 out of 6,245Before him are Moriteru Ueshiba (1951), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), and Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938). After him are Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Takuya Kimura (1972), Tadao Onishi (1943), Shōji Nishimura (1889), Kan Kikuchi (1888), and Tomomi Seo (1950).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Sakuma Shōzan ranks 302Before him are Kyuichi Tokuda (1894), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kabayama Sukenori (1837), Sadako Ogata (1927), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), and Saigō Jūdō (1843). After him are Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Abe Masahiro (1819), Makino Nobuaki (1861), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Uchida Kōsai (1865), and Ichirō Ozawa (1942).