1878 - 1942
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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Among writers, Yosano Akiko ranks 1,303 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1810 - 1876
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 1,297
1749 - 1803
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 1,298
1900 - 1978
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 1,299
1846 - 1900
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 1,300
1924 - 1987
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 1,301
103 BC - 4 BC
HPI: 58.81
Rank: 1,302
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,303
1495 - 1544
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,304
1612 - 1680
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,305
1848 - 1876
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 1,306
1890 - 1935
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,307
1935 - 2003
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,308
1880 - 1932
HPI: 58.79
Rank: 1,309
Among people born in 1878, Yosano Akiko ranks 40. Before 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 50. Before 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.
1878 - 1976
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 34
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 35
1878 - 1945
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 36
1878 - 1946
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 37
1878 - 1956
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 38
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 39
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 40
1878 - 1918
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 41
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 42
1878 - 1965
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 43
1878 - 1959
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 44
1878 - 1948
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 45
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 46
1872 - 1942
HPI: 59.34
Rank: 44
1856 - 1942
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 45
1908 - 1942
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 46
1900 - 1942
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 47
1891 - 1942
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 48
1861 - 1942
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 49
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 50
1905 - 1942
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 51
1865 - 1942
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 52
1898 - 1942
HPI: 58.46
Rank: 53
1876 - 1942
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 54
1880 - 1942
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 55
1863 - 1942
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 56
Among people born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 290 out of 6,048. Before 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).
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 284
418 - 479
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 285
1196 - 1231
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 286
1849 - 1914
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 287
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 288
683 - 707
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 289
1878 - 1942
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 290
1538 - 1599
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 291
1844 - 1915
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 292
1420 - 1506
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 293
1849 - 1940
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 294
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 295
1358 - 1408
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 296
Among writers born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 26. Before 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).
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
825 - 900
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 31
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.99
Rank: 32