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Ueda Akinari

1734 - 1809

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Ueda Akinari or Ueda Shūsei (上田 秋成; Japanese pronunciation: [ɯ.e.da (|) a.kʲiꜜ.na.ɾʲi], July 25, 1734 in Osaka – August 8, 1809 in Kyoto) was a Japanese author, scholar and waka poet, and a prominent literary figure in 18th-century Japan. He was an early writer in the yomihon genre and his two masterpieces, Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain"), are central to the canon of Japanese literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ueda Akinari is the 1,579th most popular writer (up from 2,365th in 2019), the 519th most popular biography from Japan (up from 706th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among writers, Ueda Akinari ranks 1,579 out of 7,302. Before him are Martin Opitz, Stig Dagerman, Remy de Gourmont, Neil Gaiman, Elisabeth of Schönau, and Thomas Chatterton. After him are Antipater of Sidon, Jørgen Moe, Jules Romains, John of Kronstadt, Diagoras of Melos, and Joseph Needham.

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Among people born in 1734, Ueda Akinari ranks 14. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Cardinal de Rohan, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Grigory Orlov, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, and Joseph Wright of Derby. After him are Anton Janša, Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Shahrokh Shah, and Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. Among people deceased in 1809, Ueda Akinari ranks 10. Before him are Thomas Paine, Rama I, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle. After him are August Ludwig von Schlözer, Joseph-Marie Vien, Leopold Auenbrugger, Matthew Boulton, François Laurent d'Arlandes, and John Moore.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ueda Akinari ranks 519 out of 6,245. Before him are Kantarō Suzuki (1868), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), Minoru Genda (1904), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008), and Morihiro Hosokawa (1938). After him are Shigeru Takahashi (null), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), Mitsuo Kamata (1937), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Sadao Araki (1877), and Emperor Kazan (967).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ueda Akinari ranks 29. Before him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Ono no Komachi (825), Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653), Ihara Saikaku (1642), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), and Ichiyō Higuchi (1872). After him are Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), Ryū Murakami (1952), Yosano Akiko (1878), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Junji Ito (1963), and Katsu Kaishū (1823).

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