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 245,323 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Yosano Akiko is the 1,099th most popular writer (up from 1,300th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Japan (up from 288th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yosano Akiko ranks 1,099 out of 7,302. Before her are Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Fernando Arrabal, Michael Connelly, Jean Moréas, Alfred Brehm, and Cees Nooteboom. After her are John William Polidori, Leonid Andreyev, Andrei Bely, Bhāsa, Bernard Cornwell, and Robert Merle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Yosano Akiko ranks 30. Before her are Stepan Shaumian, Georg Kaiser, George Whipple, Marcel Grossmann, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, and Arthur Scherbius. After her are Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Eileen Gray, Yakov Yurovsky, Sadriddin Ayni, Jan Łukasiewicz, and Kōki Hirota. Among people deceased in 1942, Yosano Akiko ranks 39. Before her are Grant Wood, Tina Modotti, Michel Fokine, Chen Duxiu, Felix Hausdorff, and Jan Kubiš. After her are Tamon Yamaguchi, Daniil Kharms, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Leopold Mandić, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, and Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 233 out of 6,245. Before her are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (1887), Mikao Usui (1865), Fujiko Fujio (1934), Kenichi Fukui (1918), Amakusa Shirō (1621), and Emperor Go-Kameyama (1347). After her are Hōjō Tokimune (1251), Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684), Kenji Tochio (1941), Setsuko Hara (1920), Emperor Ninken (449), and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 23. Before her are Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Kobayashi Issa (1763), Shoko Asahara (1955), Mori Ōgai (1862), Shūsaku Endō (1923), and D. T. Suzuki (1870). After her are Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Yosa Buson (1716), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Chūya Nakahara (1907), and Ryū Murakami (1952).

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