WRITER

Tsubouchi Shōyō

1859 - 1935

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Tsubouchi Shōyō (坪内 逍遥, May 22, 1859 – February 28, 1935) was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tsubouchi Shōyō has received more than 41,112 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Tsubouchi Shōyō is the 3,530th most popular writer (up from 3,838th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,014th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tsubouchi Shoyo
1967
Tsubouchi Shōyō shū
1969
L' ermite
1920
Tsubouchi Shōyō
1956
Shonenji ni mita kabuki no tsuioku (Sosho Nihonjin ron)
1997

Page views of Tsubouchi Shōyō by language

Over the past year Tsubouchi Shōyō has had the most page views in the with 296,921 views, followed by English (5,399), and Chinese (3,164). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Japanese (301.98%), Bulgarian (145.83%), and Tagalog (88.94%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tsubouchi Shōyō ranks 3,530 out of 7,302. Before him are Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nikolay Ogarev, Helena Roerich, Ryōtarō Shiba, Rutka Laskier, and Laza Lazarević. After him are Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Molla Panah Vagif, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Françoise Giroud, and Donald Barthelme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Tsubouchi Shōyō ranks 89. Before him are Fanny Bullock Workman, Jacques Loeb, Constantine VI of Constantinople, Virginie Demont-Breton, Childe Hassam, and Karl Muck. After him are Josephine Crowell, Maurice Paléologue, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, Paul César Helleu, Teodor Axentowicz, and Julius Klengel. Among people deceased in 1935, Tsubouchi Shōyō ranks 86. Before him are Nie Er, Huey Long, Hans Tropsch, Virginie Demont-Breton, Childe Hassam, and Sun Chuanfang. After him are Pyotr Kozlov, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Jules Cambon, Francisco Cepeda, Daniel Salamanca Urey, and Nina Grieg.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tsubouchi Shōyō ranks 992 out of 6,245. Before him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (1955), Makino Nobuaki (1861), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Akira Ifukube (1914), Nagayasu Honda (null), and Ryōtarō Shiba (1923). After him are Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Nakahama Manjirō (1827), Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Akio Ōtsuka (1959), and Takehito Koyasu (1967).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Tsubouchi Shōyō ranks 83. Before him are Kafū Nagai (1879), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Ennin (793), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), and Ryōtarō Shiba (1923). After him are Jien (1155), Natsuo Kirino (1951), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Michitsuna's mother (935), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), and Hiromi Kawakami (1958).

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