Top 50 Poets in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 118 poets tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Hafez, Sylvia Plath and Antler lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 298,427 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 16,121, and the largest, Hafez, reaches around 143,192 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.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Hafez	143,192	20.0%	Poet	Literature
2	Sylvia Plath	94,484	1.8%	Poet	Literature
3	Antler	60,751	2.0%	Poet	Pets & Animals
4	H. P. Lovecraft	35,067	1.1%	Poet	Literature
5	Ada Lovelace	34,439	1.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
6	T. S. Eliot	27,406	1.1%	Poet	Literature
7	Emily Brontë	24,138	1.2%	Poet	Literature
8	Duo Duo	21,986	28.3%	Poet	Literature
9	Henry David Thoreau	20,629	1.7%	Poet	Literature
10	YAN TV	19,210	14.3%	Poet	Movies & TV
11	Alexander Pushkin	18,812	1.7%	Poet	Literature
12	Lord Byron	17,480	0.8%	Poet	Literature
13	Aldous Huxley	15,298	1.3%	Poet	Literature
14	Rumi	14,898	1.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
15	Ralph Waldo Emerson	14,474	1.3%	Poet	Literature
16	Charlotte Brontë	14,450	2.6%	Poet	Literature
17	Shel Silverstein	13,456	1.0%	Poet	Literature
18	Richard I of England	13,042	1.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
19	dean koontz	11,598	1.8%	Poet	Literature
20	Nikolai Gogol	11,386	1.4%	Poet	Literature
21	Charles Baudelaire	11,248	0.8%	Poet	Literature
22	Cyrano de Bergerac	10,518	1.1%	Poet	Literature
23	Trịnh Công Sơn	9,472	23.3%	Poet	Literature
24	Allen Ginsberg	9,250	1.2%	Poet	Literature
25	Ray Bradbury	9,228	0.7%	Poet	Literature
26	Percy Bysshe Shelley	8,336	0.9%	Poet	Literature
27	Thích Nhất Hạnh	7,808	5.1%	Poet	Politics & Society
28	Bertolt Brecht	7,793	0.3%	Poet	Literature
29	Robert Louis Stevenson	7,519	0.7%	Poet	Literature
30	Tennessee Williams	7,188	0.7%	Poet	Literature
31	Al-Ghazali	6,796	0.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
32	John Keats	6,646	0.9%	Poet	Literature
33	Michel Houellebecq	6,559	1.1%	Poet	Literature
34	Kazi Nazrul Islam	5,777	1.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
35	John Milton	5,658	0.6%	Poet	Literature
36	W. H. Auden	4,881	1.9%	Poet	Literature
37	Audre Lorde	4,759	0.8%	Poet	Literature
38	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	4,730	0.5%	Poet	Politics & Society
39	Joyce Carol Oates	4,671	0.7%	Poet	Literature
40	Chinua Achebe	4,492	1.6%	Poet	Literature
41	Mahmoud Darwish	4,460	0.5%	Poet	Literature
42	Wilfred Owen	4,353	0.8%	Poet	Literature
43	Seamus Heaney	3,889	1.4%	Poet	Literature
44	Miguel de Cervantes	3,888	0.2%	Poet	Literature
45	Amanda Gorman	3,709	0.5%	Poet	Literature
46	Ikkyū	3,466	57.1%	Poet	Literature
47	John Cooper Clarke	3,438	0.6%	Poet	Literature
48	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	3,332	1.7%	Poet	Literature
49	Hua Mulan	3,062	3.6%	Poet	Literature
50	Wole Soyinka	2,946	0.9%	Poet	Literature