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Jien

1155 - 1225

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Jien (慈円; 17 May 1155 in Kyoto – 28 October 1225 in Omi) was a Japanese poet, historian, and Buddhist monk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jien is the 3,243rd most popular writer (up from 3,542nd in 2019), the 961st most popular biography from Japan (up from 995th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jien ranks 3,243 out of 7,302. Before him are Émile Faguet, Ernst Wiechert, Kim Hyon-hui, Pedro Salinas, Joan Maragall, and E. E. Smith. After him are Abu-l-'Atahiya, Henning Jakob Henrik Lund, Suzanne Curchod, Gaston Rébuffat, Eric Ambler, and Yasutaka Tsutsui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1155, Jien ranks 14. Before him are Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Kilij Arslan II, Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia, Kamo no Chōmei, and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera. After him are Blondel de Nesle, Gervase of Tilbury, Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway, and Sigurd Markusfostre. Among people deceased in 1225, Jien ranks 9. Before him are Al-Nasir, Comtessa de Dia, Arnaud Amalric, Hōjō Masako, Angelus of Jerusalem, and Ma Yuan. After him are Engelbert II of Berg, and Adolf III of Holstein.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Jien ranks 961 out of 6,245. Before him are Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Oku Yasukata (1847), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), Haruomi Hosono (1947), Yukio Kasaya (1943), and Shigeyoshi Inoue (1889). After him are Keisuke Honda (1986), Akio Toyoda (1956), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Takeshi Urata (1947), and Giant Baba (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Jien ranks 69. Before him are Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Yūko Tsushima (1947), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Fumiko Enchi (1905), and Hitoshi Igarashi (1947). After him are Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Kafū Nagai (1879), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Naoya Shiga (1883), and Hiromi Kawakami (1958).

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