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Yosa Buson

1716 - 1783

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Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. He lived from 1716 – January 17, 1784. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yosa Buson has received more than 181,507 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Yosa Buson is the 1,241st most popular writer (down from 1,231st in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from Japan (down from 267th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Writer.

Yosa Buson is most famous for his haiku poetry.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Botsugo 220-nen Buson
2003
Haiku Master Buson
History
The first English translation of one of Japan's most important haiku poets.
20074 / 5
Buson shū
1980
Yosa no Buson kushu
1991
Buson zenshu
1992

Page views of Yosa Busons by language

Over the past year Yosa Buson has had the most page views in the with 71,362 views, followed by English (19,615), and Spanish (4,367). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (98.55%), Belarusian (65.23%), and Breton (54.92%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yosa Buson ranks 1,241 out of 7,302. Before him are Bhartṛhari, Boris Pahor, Radoje Domanović, Andrei Platonov, Shammai, and Vittorio Alfieri. After him are Salawat Yulayev, John Dryden, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Al-Khansa, Publilius Syrus, and Arthur Hailey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Yosa Buson ranks 2. Before him is Charles III of Spain. After him are Étienne Maurice Falconet, James Lind, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Yuan Mei, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Thomas Gray, and Luis Egidio Meléndez. Among people deceased in 1783, Yosa Buson ranks 7. Before him are Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Étienne Bézout, Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, and Carl Linnaeus the Younger. After him are Antonio Soler, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Benedict Joseph Labre, and Nikita Ivanovich Panin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 284 out of 6,245. Before him are Kentaro Miura (1966), Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641), Tomiichi Murayama (1924), Emperor Shōmu (701), Takashi Kano (1920), and Emperor Kazan (967). After him are Emperor Go-Fukakusa (1243), Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Emperor Bidatsu (538), Konishi Yukinaga (1555), and Hiroyuki Sanada (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 26. Before him are Mori Ōgai (1862), Shūsaku Endō (1923), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Yosano Akiko (1878), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), and Eiji Yoshikawa (1892). After him are Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Ryū Murakami (1952), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ono no Komachi (825), and Junji Ito (1963).

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