966 - 1025
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966 – 1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sei Shōnagon has received more than 231,646 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Sei Shōnagon is the 432nd most popular writer (up from 621st in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Japan (up from 75th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Writer.
Sei Shōnagon is most famous for her work "The Pillow Book" which is a collection of short essays, anecdotes, and observations about life at the imperial court.
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Among writers, Sei Shōnagon ranks 432 out of 5,794. Before her are Fausto Cercignani, Mika Waltari, Percy Fawcett, Alfred de Musset, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Andrzej Sapkowski. After her are Kurt Vonnegut, Alexander Pope, Heinrich von Kleist, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Joseph Brodsky.
1941 - Present
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 426
1908 - 1979
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 427
1867 - 1925
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 428
1810 - 1857
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 429
1828 - 1882
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 430
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 431
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 432
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 433
1688 - 1744
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 434
1777 - 1811
HPI: 75.10
Rank: 435
1636 - 1711
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 436
1906 - 2001
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 437
1940 - 1996
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 438
Among people born in 966, Sei Shōnagon ranks 1. After her are Bjarni Herjólfsson, Rogneda of Polotsk, and Fujiwara no Michinaga. Among people deceased in 1025, Sei Shōnagon ranks 3. Before her are Basil II and Bolesław I the Brave. After her are Hugh Magnus and Muhammad III of Córdoba.
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 1
966 - 1000
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 2
966 - 1002
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 3
966 - 1028
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 4
958 - 1025
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 1
967 - 1025
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 2
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 3
1007 - 1025
HPI: 66.36
Rank: 4
976 - 1025
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 5
Among people born in Japan, Sei Shōnagon ranks 46 out of 5,560. Before her are Takeda Shingen (1521), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Soichiro Honda (1906), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Yayoi Kusama (1929), and Osamu Dazai (1909). After her are Tadao Ando (1941), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Emperor Kōmei (1831), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Itō Hirobumi (1841), and Liv Ullmann (1938).
1521 - 1573
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 40
1945 - Present
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 41
1906 - 1991
HPI: 75.45
Rank: 42
1887 - 1944
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 43
1929 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 44
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 45
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 46
1941 - Present
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 47
1903 - 1963
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 48
1831 - 1867
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 49
1147 - 1199
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 50
1841 - 1909
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 51
1938 - Present
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 52
Among writers born in Japan, Sei Shōnagon ranks 10. Before her are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), and Osamu Dazai (1909). After her are Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Kōbō Abe (1924), Masaru Emoto (1943), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), and Mori Ōgai (1862).
973 - 1014
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 4
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 5
1899 - 1972
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 6
1935 - Present
HPI: 76.31
Rank: 7
1892 - 1927
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 8
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 9
966 - 1025
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 10
1867 - 1916
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 11
1954 - Present
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 12
1924 - 1993
HPI: 72.24
Rank: 13
1943 - 2014
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 14
1886 - 1965
HPI: 71.65
Rank: 15
1862 - 1922
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 16