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Yosa Buson

1716 - 1783

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Yosa (no) Buson (与謝 蕪村; Japanese pronunciation: [joꜜ.sa | bɯꜜ.soɴ]) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. He lived from 1716 – January 17, 1784. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun prose, and experimenting with a mixed Chinese-Japanese style of poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yosa Buson is the 1,015th most popular writer (up from 1,240th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Japan (up from 284th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Japanese Writer.

Yosa Buson is most famous for his haiku poetry.

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Among writers, Yosa Buson ranks 1,015 out of 7,302. Before him are Ed Bradley, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Dalton Trumbo, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Khachatur Abovian, and André Bazin. After him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Nicolas Chamfort, Johann Peter Eckermann, Clément Marot, Eleanor H. Porter, and Ann Radcliffe.

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Among people born in 1716, Yosa Buson ranks 3. Before him are Charles III of Spain, and Capability Brown. After him are Louise Diane d'Orléans, Étienne Maurice Falconet, James Lind, Gaspar de Portolá, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Yuan Mei, Antonio de Ulloa, and Thomas Gray. Among people deceased in 1783, Yosa Buson ranks 6. Before him are Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Capability Brown, Johann Adolph Hasse, and Étienne Bézout. After him are Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

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Among people born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 219 out of 6,245. Before him are Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), and Ryuzo Shimizu (1902). After him are Arawa Kimura (1931), Tokizo Ichihashi (1909), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Yoshio Okada (1926), Hifuyo Uchida (null), and Tadao Takayama (1904).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosa Buson ranks 19. Before him are Kōbō Abe (1924), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Masaru Emoto (1943), Kobayashi Issa (1763), and Shoko Asahara (1955). After him are Mori Ōgai (1862), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Ono no Komachi (825), and Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653).

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