1716 - 1783
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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Among writers, Yosa Buson ranks 1,234 out of 5,755. Before 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.
575 - 645
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 1,228
1886 - 1956
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 1,229
1845 - 1900
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 1,230
1809 - 1872
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 1,231
1899 - 1951
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 1,232
254 BC - 201 BC
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 1,233
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 1,234
110 - 200
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 1,235
1926 - 2001
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 1,236
1933 - 1991
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 1,237
1807 - 1882
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 1,238
1840 - 1922
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 1,239
1936 - 1988
HPI: 59.16
Rank: 1,240
Among people born in 1716, Yosa Buson ranks 3. Before 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 7. Before 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.
1716 - 1788
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 1
1716 - 1791
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 2
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 3
1716 - 1794
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 4
1716 - 1736
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 5
1716 - 1801
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 6
1716 - 1809
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 7
1716 - 1771
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 8
1716 - 1795
HPI: 54.50
Rank: 9
1716 - 1795
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 10
1716 - 1779
HPI: 52.58
Rank: 11
1716 - 1798
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 12
1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
Rank: 1
1717 - 1783
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 2
1734 - 1783
HPI: 63.92
Rank: 3
1699 - 1783
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 4
1730 - 1783
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 5
1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 6
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 7
1741 - 1783
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 8
1736 - 1783
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 9
1748 - 1783
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 10
1718 - 1783
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 11
1723 - 1783
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 12
1698 - 1783
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 13
Among people born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 269 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1835 - 1885
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 263
1852 - 1919
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 264
1156 - 1225
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 265
466 - 536
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 266
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 267
1963 - Present
HPI: 59.31
Rank: 268
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 269
1684 - 1751
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 270
538 - 585
HPI: 59.19
Rank: 271
1833 - 1877
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 272
1887 - 1957
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 273
1932 - 1988
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 274
1572 - Present
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 275
Among writers born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 24. Before 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).
1363 - 1443
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 18
1955 - 2018
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 19
1870 - 1966
HPI: 60.68
Rank: 20
1862 - 1922
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 21
1763 - 1828
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 22
1892 - 1962
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 23
1716 - 1783
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 24
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 25
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 26
1907 - 1937
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 27
1896 - 1933
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 28
1642 - 1693
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 29
1872 - 1896
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 30