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WRITER

Tōson Shimazaki

1872 - 1943

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Tōson Shimazaki (島崎 藤村, Shimazaki Tōson, 25 March 1872 – 22 August 1943) was the pen-name of Haruki Shimazaki, a Japanese writer active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He began his career as a Romantic poet, but went on to establish himself as a major proponent of Japanese Naturalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tōson Shimazaki has received more than 72,243 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tōson Shimazaki is the 3,123rd most popular writer (down from 3,107th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from Japan (down from 858th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 20

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  • 4.05

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tōson Shimazaki ranks 3,123 out of 5,755Before him are Theodore Bibliander, László Polgár, Zivia Lubetkin, Maximilian Voloshin, Richard Dehmel, and Max Aub. After him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, Gabrielle Roy, Arnošt Lustig, Holger Drachmann, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and Robert de Clari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Tōson Shimazaki ranks 88Before him are Miguel Cabanellas, Franz John, Edith Wilson, Bak Jungyang, Dionysios Kasdaglis, and Heinrich Vogeler. After him are Vilhelms Purvītis, Mikhail Kuzmin, Otto Witte, Georges Urbain, Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, and Elia Dalla Costa. Among people deceased in 1943, Tōson Shimazaki ranks 111Before him are Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Fats Waller, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Johann Niemann, Alojs Andritzki, and Aliagha Shikhlinski. After him are Anathon Aall, Winnaretta Singer, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Erich Bey, A. Merritt, and W. S. Van Dyke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tōson Shimazaki ranks 867 out of 6,048Before him are Kusumoto Ine (1827), Tarō Kōno (1963), Norio Ohga (1930), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), Koichi Tohei (1920), and Nobuo Uematsu (1959). After him are Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Akinori Nakayama (1943), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Takehiko Inoue (1967), and Kafū Nagai (1879).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Tōson Shimazaki ranks 71Before him are Naoya Shiga (1883), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), and Hitoshi Igarashi (1947). After him are Futabatei Shimei (1864), Kafū Nagai (1879), Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), and Itō Noe (1895).