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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 179,710 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Yosa Buson is the 1,234th most popular writer (down from 1,109th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Japan (down from 205th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Writer.

Yosa Buson is most famous for his haiku poetry.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

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  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yosa Buson ranks 1,234 out of 5,755Before him are Al-Khansa, Gottfried Benn, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Ljudevit Gaj, Andrei Platonov, and Quintus Fabius Pictor. After him are Babrius, Poul Anderson, Jerzy Kosiński, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Giovanni Verga, and Valerie Solanas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Yosa Buson ranks 3Before him are Charles III of Spain and Étienne Maurice Falconet. After him are James Lind, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Thomas Gray, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Pehr Kalm, and Yuan Mei. Among people deceased in 1783, Yosa Buson ranks 7Before him are Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Grigory Orlov, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, and Antonio Soler. After him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johann Jakob Bodmer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 269 out of 6,048Before him are Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Terauchi Masatake (1852), Hōjō Masako (1156), Emperor Ankan (466), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), and Hideo Kojima (1963). After him are Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Emperor Bidatsu (538), Kido Takayoshi (1833), Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), Hiroaki Sato (1932), and Izumo no Okuni (1572).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 24Before him are Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Shoko Asahara (1955), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Mori Ōgai (1862), Kobayashi Issa (1763), and Eiji Yoshikawa (1892). After him are Shūsaku Endō (1923), Yosano Akiko (1878), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Ihara Saikaku (1642), and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872).