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Ō no Yasumaro

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Ō no Yasumaro (太 安万侶, died August 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat, and chronicler. He may have been the son of Ō no Honji (多 品治), a participant in the Jinshin War of 672. He is most famous for compiling and editing, with the assistance of Hieda no Are, the Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ō no Yasumaro has received more than 73,813 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ō no Yasumaro is the 4,114th most popular writer (up from 4,195th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Kojiki
Mythology, japanese, Shinto, Japanese literature, translations into english
2014
Kojiki
Mythology, japanese, Shinto, Japanese literature, translations into english
2014

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ō no Yasumaro ranks 4,114 out of 7,302. Before her are Marietta Shaginyan, Marie-Claire Blais, Mona Simpson, Johann Georg von Hahn, Lisa Tetzner, and Ngaio Marsh. After her are Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Cemal Süreya, Ken Adam, Maximilian Harden, Peter Cheyney, and Musa Anter.

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