RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1659 - 1719

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Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本 常朝), Buddhist monastic name Yamamoto Jōchō (June 11, 1659 – November 30, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yamamoto Tsunetomo has received more than 261,066 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Yamamoto Tsunetomo is the 838th most popular religious figure (down from 816th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Japan (down from 181st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo is most famous for writing the Hagakure, a text that is considered to be a guide for samurai.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.74

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 838 out of 3,187. Before him are Avvakum, Al-Qurtubi, Peter of Alcantara, Eulalia of Barcelona, Antipope Gregory VIII, and Theodore Stratelates. After him are Priscillian, Saint Susanna, Germanus I of Constantinople, Blessed Gerard, Andrew Kim Taegon, and Zeno of Verona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 8. Before him are Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jacob Roggeveen, Henry Every, Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Pieter van der Aa. After him are Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Domenico Gabrielli, and Damaris Cudworth Masham. Among people deceased in 1719, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 6. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, Benjamin Hornigold, and Michel Rolle. After him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Boris Sheremetev, Arnold Houbraken, and Joseph Addison.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 212 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Richū (336), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Yozo Aoki (1929), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Issei Sagawa (1949), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940). After him are Kantarō Suzuki (1868), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Emperor Hanzei (336), Emperor Chūai (149), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), and Emperor Go-Kashiwabara (1464).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 9. Before him are Nichiren (1222), Benkei (1155), Paulo Miki (1564), Empress Meishō (1624), Abe no Seimei (921), and Sen no Rikyū (1522). After him are Mikao Usui (1865), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), Ikkyū (1394), Eisai (1141), Saichō (767), and Shinran (1173).

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