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Yosano Akiko

1878 - 1942

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Yosano Shō (与謝野 志やう; née Hō (鳳); 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942), known by her pen name Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, Kyūjitai: 與謝野 晶子, Japanese pronunciation: [jo.sa.no (|) aꜜ.kʲi̥.ko]), was a Japanese author, poet, feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan. She is one of the most noted, and most controversial, post-classical female poets of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yosano Akiko is the 1,740th most popular writer (down from 1,098th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from Japan (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Japanese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yosano Akiko ranks 1,740 out of 7,302. Before her are Edwin Abbott Abbott, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Johnston McCulley, Marcellinus Comes, Arne Garborg, and Jack Vance. After her are Xu Shen, J.-H. Rosny aîné, Josep Pla, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Fernando Arrabal, and Moschus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Yosano Akiko ranks 65. Before her are Eino Leino, Paul Troost, James Oliver Curwood, Angelica Balabanoff, Louis Camille Maillard, and Herbert Chapman. After her are Paul Pelliot, Upton Sinclair, Edward Kasner, Hans Ledwinka, Franz Schreker, and Lionel Barrymore. Among people deceased in 1942, Yosano Akiko ranks 66. Before her are Hugh S. Johnson, Georg Stumme, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Avraham Stern, Germaine Dulac, and Mikhail Nesterov. After her are Augustinas Voldemaras, Stjepan Filipović, Heinz Hitler, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, John Barrymore, and Georg Alexander Pick.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 575 out of 6,245. Before her are Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Takeo Kurita (1889), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Hidetoshi Nakata (1977). After her are Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Saitō Makoto (1858), Rei Kawakubo (1942), Masayoshi Ōhira (1910), and Tsutomu Hata (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Yosano Akiko ranks 32. Before her are Ihara Saikaku (1642), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Ueda Akinari (1734), Akiyuki Nosaka (1930), and Ryū Murakami (1952). After her are Shūsaku Endō (1923), Junji Ito (1963), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), and Chūya Nakahara (1907).

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