WRITER

Saneatsu Mushanokōji

1885 - 1976

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Saneatsu Mushanokōji (武者小路 実篤(實篤), Mushanokōji Saneatsu, May 12, 1885 – April 9, 1976) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, poet, artist, and philosopher active during the late Taishō and Shōwa periods of Japan. Later on in life he requested that the pronunciation of his surname (as far as was concerned) be changed from the usual Mushanokōji, to Mushakōji, but without much success. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saneatsu Mushanokōji has received more than 46,374 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Saneatsu Mushanokōji is the 4,481st most popular writer (down from 4,096th in 2019), the 1,176th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,071st in 2019) and the 94th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 46k

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  • 49.06

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

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  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Two fables of Japan
Folklore
1957
Yūjō
1939
Mushanokoji Saneatsu shū
1927
Wakaki hi no omoide
1955
Mushanokōji Saneatsu shū
1970
Ai to shi
1952

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saneatsu Mushanokōji ranks 4,481 out of 7,302. Before him are Tracy Chevalier, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sofia Yablonska, and Cecil Day-Lewis. After him are Sakyo Komatsu, Itzik Feffer, Turan Dursun, El-Registan, Reginald Rose, and Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Saneatsu Mushanokōji ranks 178. Before him are Edna Ferber, Alexandre Volkoff, Pierre Dupong, Duncan Grant, Juhan Kukk, and Alicia Moreau de Justo. After him are Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, Alexander Tairov, Walter Anderson, Hasan Saka, Alfréd Haar, and Stevan Hristić. Among people deceased in 1976, Saneatsu Mushanokōji ranks 171. Before him are Veikko Huhtanen, Carlos Fonseca, Mark Tobey, Markus Reiner, Zainul Abedin, and Fritz Rasp. After him are Yashpal, Marguerite Laugier, Jens Bjørneboe, Armas Taipale, Jimmy Reed, and Alfred Landé.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Saneatsu Mushanokōji ranks 1,176 out of 6,245. Before him are Namie Amuro (1977), Takumi Minamino (1995), Noriko Ohara (1935), Banjō Ginga (1948), Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), and Yoshishige Yoshida (1933). After him are Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Kunio Maekawa (1905), Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930), Hideo Nakata (1961), Seiki Ichihara (1950), and Tura Satana (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Saneatsu Mushanokōji ranks 94. Before him are Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Hiromi Kawakami (1958), Miyamoto Yuriko (1899), Masuji Ibuse (1898), Yōko Ogawa (1962), and Yoshiki Tanaka (1952). After him are Sakyo Komatsu (1931), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), Koji Suzuki (1957), Yoko Tawada (1960), Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886), and Shōhei Ōoka (1909).

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