RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1659 - 1719

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Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本 常朝), Buddhist monastic name Yamamoto Jōchō (June 11, 1659 – November 30, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. He became a Zen Buddhist priest and relayed his experiences, memories, lessons, ideas, and aphorisms to the samurai Tashiro Tsuramoto, who compiled them under the title Hagakure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yamamoto Tsunetomo is the 1,081st most popular religious figure (down from 838th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 212th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Religious Figure.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo is most famous for writing the Hagakure, a text that is considered to be a guide for samurai.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 1,081 out of 3,187. Before him are Sinchi Roca, Sebeos, Gerasimus of the Jordan, Adalbert of Magdeburg, William Tyndale, and Antonio Cañizares Llovera. After him are Sufyan al-Thawri, Ernest Simoni, Peter of Alcantara, William M. Branham, Ippolito de' Medici, and Hatim al-Tai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1659, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 7. Before him are Henry Purcell, Jacob Roggeveen, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Georg Ernst Stahl, Henry Every, and Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang. After him are Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Adriaen van der Werff, Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Domenico Gabrielli. Among people deceased in 1719, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, John Flamsteed, Shah Jahan II, Michel Rolle, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, and Benjamin Hornigold. After him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Addison, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Boris Sheremetev, and Arp Schnitger.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 392 out of 6,245. Before him are Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887), Emperor Kōbun (648), Hidesaburō Ueno (1872), Ichirō Hatoyama (1883), Sakae Takahashi (null), and Emperor Sushun (520). After him are Akinori Nakayama (1943), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), Akira Matsunaga (1914), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Japan

Among religious figures born in Japan, Yamamoto Tsunetomo ranks 10. Before him are Nichiren (1222), Empress Meishō (1624), Benkei (1155), Abe no Seimei (921), Sen no Rikyū (1522), and Mikao Usui (1865). After him are Ikkyū (1394), Eisai (1141), Saichō (767), Shinran (1173), Dom Justo Takayama (1552), and Shunryū Suzuki (1904).

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