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WRITER

Yosano Akiko

1878 - 1942

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Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, seiji: 與謝野 晶子; 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. Her name at birth was Shō Hō (鳳 志やう, Hō Shō). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yosano Akiko has received more than 218,927 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yosano Akiko is the 1,303rd most popular writer (up from 1,528th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Japan (up from 396th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 58.80

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yosano Akiko ranks 1,303 out of 5,755Before her are Francesco Maria Piave, Vittorio Alfieri, Ignazio Silone, Naim Frashëri, James Baldwin, and Marcus Tullius Tiro. After her are Clément Marot, Samuel Butler, Hristo Botev, Kurt Tucholsky, Monique Wittig, and Alexander Grin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Yosano Akiko ranks 40Before her are George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Mahmud Barzanji, and Slavko Kvaternik. After her are Stepan Shaumian, James Oliver Curwood, Angelica Balabanoff, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Kōki Hirota, and Boris Kustodiev. Among people deceased in 1942, Yosano Akiko ranks 50Before her are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Grant Wood, and Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal. After her are Daniil Kharms, Wilbur Scoville, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Ivan Bilibin, Adam Czerniaków, and Leopold Berchtold.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 290 out of 6,048Before her are Shūsaku Endō (1923), Emperor Yūryaku (418), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Empress Shōken (1849), Toru Takemitsu (1930), and Emperor Monmu (683). After her are Maeda Toshiie (1538), Saitō Hajime (1844), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), Yoshirō Mori (1937), and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358).

Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 26Before her are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Mori Ōgai (1862), Kobayashi Issa (1763), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), and Shūsaku Endō (1923). After her are Chūya Nakahara (1907), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ono no Komachi (825), and Ryū Murakami (1952).