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Top 100 Poets in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 113 poets tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Hafez, Sylvia Plath and H. P. Lovecraft lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 272k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 7.9k, and the largest, Hafez, reaches around 143k people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Hafez 143k 36.6 71.5% Poet
2 Sylvia Plath 94k 33.0 69.6% Poet
3 H. P. Lovecraft 35k 31.0 65.1% Poet
4 Ada Lovelace 34k 37.6 64.6% Poet
5 T. S. Eliot 27k 42.4 71.9% Poet
6 Emily Brontë 27k 34.1 66.4% Poet
7 Duo Duo 22k 29.5 58.2% Poet
8 Henry David Thoreau 21k 25.1 65.1% Poet
9 Alexander Pushkin 19k 44.8 35.2% Poet
10 Lord Byron 18k 46.7 32.5% Poet
11 Charlotte Brontë 18k 30.9 65.2% Poet
12 Rumi 16k 36.1 55.8% Poet
13 Aldous Huxley 16k 26.1 58.8% Poet
14 Ralph Waldo Emerson 14k 41.1 60.4% Poet
15 Thích Nhất Hạnh 14k 22.9 48.1% Poet
16 Shel Silverstein 13k 41.9 81.9% Poet
17 Richard I of England 13k 42.8 60.5% Poet
18 dean koontz 12k 39.9 58.1% Poet
19 Nikolai Gogol 11k 44.6 36.1% Poet
20 Cyrano de Bergerac 11k 30.5 49.8% Poet
21 Allen Ginsberg 9.3k 37.2 41.3% Poet
22 Ray Bradbury 9.2k 26.9 43.2% Poet
23 Percy Bysshe Shelley 8.3k 41.1 68.4% Poet
24 Bertolt Brecht 7.8k 35.6 65.0% Poet
25 Robert Louis Stevenson 7.5k 36.3 83.8% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Japan?

Hafez currently leads with an estimated audience of 143k people in Japan.

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