1659 - 1719
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 245,846 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Yamamoto Tsunetomo is the 824th most popular religious figure (down from 804th in 2019), the 182nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 207th 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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Among religious figures, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 824 out of 2,238. Before him are Mammes of Caesarea, Haran, Rashid Rida, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Saint Maurus, and Antipope Dioscorus. After him are Apollinaris of Ravenna, Romano Guardini, Malik al-Ashtar, Jean Mabillon, Hélder Câmara, and Sen no Rikyū.
259 - 275
HPI: 61.11
Rank: 818
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 819
1865 - 1935
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 820
1927 - 2021
HPI: 61.04
Rank: 821
512 - 587
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 822
500 - 530
HPI: 61.01
Rank: 823
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 824
101 - 75
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 825
1885 - 1968
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 826
585 - 658
HPI: 60.98
Rank: 827
1632 - 1707
HPI: 60.96
Rank: 828
1909 - 1999
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 829
1522 - 1591
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 830
Among people born in 1659, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 5. Before him are Henry Purcell, Jacob Roggeveen, Georg Ernst Stahl, and Henry Every. After him are Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Domenico Gabrielli, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and David Gregory. 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, Michel Rolle, and Benjamin Hornigold. After him are Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Joseph Addison, Boris Sheremetev, and Farrukhsiyar.
1659 - 1695
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 1
1659 - 1729
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 2
1659 - 1734
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 3
1659 - 1699
HPI: 62.67
Rank: 4
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 5
1659 - 1734
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 6
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 7
1659 - 1733
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 8
1659 - 1690
HPI: 53.80
Rank: 9
1659 - 1722
HPI: 53.44
Rank: 10
1659 - 1732
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 11
1659 - 1708
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 12
1635 - 1719
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 1
1651 - 1719
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 2
1646 - 1719
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 3
1652 - 1719
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 4
1680 - 1719
HPI: 61.86
Rank: 5
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 6
1695 - 1719
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 7
1682 - 1719
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 8
1659 - 1719
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 9
1672 - 1719
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 10
1652 - 1719
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 11
1685 - 1719
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 182 out of 6,048. Before him are Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Naoto Kan (1946), Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Emperor Antoku (1178), Masamune (1300), and Emperor Tenmu (631). After him are Sen no Rikyū (1522), Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), and Emperor Kōtoku (596).
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.18
Rank: 176
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 177
1519 - 1560
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 178
1178 - 1185
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 179
1300 - 1400
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 180
631 - 686
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 181
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 182
1522 - 1591
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 183
1838 - 1922
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 184
1887 - 1945
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 185
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 186
1915 - 2016
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 187
596 - 654
HPI: 60.82
Rank: 188
Among religious figures born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 9. Before him are Dōgen (1200), Benkei (1155), Abe no Seimei (921), Empress Meishō (1624), Paulo Miki (1564), and Mikao Usui (1865). After him are Sen no Rikyū (1522), Ikkyū (1394), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), Eisai (1141), Saichō (767), and Shinran (1173).
1200 - 1253
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 3
1155 - 1189
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 4
921 - 1005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 5
1624 - 1696
HPI: 63.36
Rank: 6
1564 - 1597
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 7
1865 - 1926
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 8
1659 - 1719
HPI: 61.00
Rank: 9
1522 - 1591
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 10
1394 - 1481
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 11
1552 - 1615
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 12
1141 - 1215
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 13
767 - 822
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 14
1173 - 1263
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 15