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Empress Shōken

1849 - 1914

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Masako Ichijō (一条勝子, Ichijō Masako; 9 May 1849 – 9 April 1914), who adopted the imperial given name Haruko (美子) in 1867 and was posthumously honoured as Empress Dowager Shōken (昭憲皇太后, Shōken Kōtaigō), was the wife of Emperor Meiji of Japan. She was one of the founders of the Japanese Red Cross Society, whose charity work was known throughout the First Sino-Japanese War. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Empress Shōken is the 520th most popular companion (down from 339th in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from Japan (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Companion.

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Empress Shōken ranks 520 out of 784. Before her are Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Soseono, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon, and Danashri. After her are Ealhswith, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne, Viridis Visconti, Artakama, and Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Empress Shōken ranks 42. Before her are Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Jean Béraud, Hong Tianguifu, Herbert von Bismarck, Saionji Kinmochi, and Georg Luger. After her are Dersu Uzala, William Osler, Karl Brugmann, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, and Johan August Brinell. Among people deceased in 1914, Empress Shōken ranks 42. Before her are George Speck, Christian Morgenstern, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Jurji Zaydan, George William Hill, and Julio Argentino Roca. After her are Albéric Magnard, Ayub Khan, Giuseppe Mercalli, Kitty Lange Kielland, Ödön Lechner, and Paul Héroult.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Empress Shōken ranks 644 out of 6,245. Before her are Emperor Nijō (1143), Chūya Nakahara (1907), Sen Katayama (1859), Yoshitada Yamaguchi (1944), Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), and Senjūrō Hayashi (1876). After her are Ankō Itosu (1831), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Motoo Kimura (1924), Teruo Nimura (1943), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), and Enomoto Takeaki (1836).

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Among COMPANIONS In Japan

Among companions born in Japan, Empress Shōken ranks 3. Before her are Empress Kōjun (1903), and Empress Teimei (1884). After her are Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), and Olivia Lufkin (1979).

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