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Sugawara no Michizane

845 - 903

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Sugawara no Michizane (菅原 道真/菅原 道眞, August 1, 845 – March 26, 903) was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, Tenman-Tenjin (天満天神, often shortened to Tenjin). In the famed poem anthology Hyakunin Isshu, he is known as Kanke (菅家), and in kabuki drama he is known as Kan Shōjō (菅丞相). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sugawara no Michizane has received more than 586,441 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sugawara no Michizane is the 667th most popular writer (up from 960th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 170th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sugawara no Michizane ranks 667 out of 7,302. Before him are Isabelle de Charrière, Aratus, Giambattista Basile, Ivan Goncharov, Irwin Shaw, and Eduardo Galeano. After him are Theodore the Studite, Matilde Camus, H. L. Mencken, Carlo Gozzi, Douglas Adams, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 845, Sugawara no Michizane ranks 2. Before him is Árpád. After him are Charles of Provence, Richilde of Provence, and Liutgard of Saxony. Among people deceased in 903, Sugawara no Michizane ranks 2. Before him is Pope Benedict IV. After him are Ahmad ibn Rustah, and Théodrate of Troyes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sugawara no Michizane ranks 102 out of 6,245. Before him are Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Naoto Kan (1946), Akira Suzuki (1930), Paulo Miki (1564), Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), and Empress Meishō (1624). After him are Joan Fontaine (1917), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), Sei Shōnagon (966), Okita Sōji (1842), and Emperor Go-Momozono (1758).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Sugawara no Michizane ranks 13. Before him are Murasaki Shikibu (973), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), and Kōbō Abe (1924). After him are Sei Shōnagon (966), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Masaru Emoto (1943), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Kobayashi Issa (1763), and Shoko Asahara (1955).

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