WRITER

Ueda Akinari

1734 - 1809

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Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成, July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ueda Akinari has received more than 99,822 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Ueda Akinari is the 2,365th most popular writer (down from 2,302nd in 2019), the 706th most popular biography from Japan (down from 678th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ueda Akinari ranks 2,365 out of 7,302. Before him are Frigyes Karinthy, Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Salvadore Cammarano, Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Illica, and Frank McCourt. After him are William Auld, Ulf Stark, António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, and Leonard Woolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1734, Ueda Akinari ranks 19. Before him are Shahrokh Shah, George Romney, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti. After him are Daniel Boone, Anton Janša, Nikolai Vasilyeich Repnin, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria, and Francisco Bayeu y Subías. Among people deceased in 1809, Ueda Akinari ranks 16. Before him are Joseph-Marie Vien, Matthew Boulton, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Leopold Auenbrugger, and William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. After him are Augustin Pajou, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Dirk van der Aa, Meriwether Lewis, and Anton Stamitz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ueda Akinari ranks 706 out of 6,245. Before him are Keisai Eisen (1790), Prince Morikuni (1301), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Yoshinobu Ishii (1939), Setsu Sawagata (null), and Norio Yoshimizu (1946). After him are Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), Shinichi Suzuki (1898), Sakae Takahashi (null), Takeo Takahashi (1947), Masashi Watanabe (1936), and Shintaro Abe (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ueda Akinari ranks 47. Before him are Keigo Higashino (1958), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Saigyō (1118), and Fujiwara no Teika (1162). After him are Izumi Shikibu (976), Ki no Tsurayuki (866), Ikki Kita (1883), Ariwara no Narihira (825), George Ohsawa (1893), and Okakura Kakuzō (1862).

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