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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
26 Tennessee Williams 7.2k 48.3 63.8% Poet
27 Charles Baudelaire 6.9k 38.7 69.9% Poet
28 Al-Ghazali 6.8k 24.7 50.7% Poet
29 Michel Houellebecq 6.7k 25.9 50.3% Poet
30 John Keats 6.6k 28.8 33.0% Poet
31 John Milton 6.4k 35.6 61.4% Poet
32 Kazi Nazrul Islam 5.9k 31.5 63.7% Poet
33 W. H. Auden 4.9k 39.7 79.5% Poet
34 Joyce Carol Oates 4.8k 24.4 62.5% Poet
35 Audre Lorde 4.8k 30.2 74.5% Poet
36 Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum 4.7k 32.6 20.6% Poet
37 Chinua Achebe 4.5k 36.9 55.6% Poet
38 Mahmoud Darwish 4.5k 31.0 72.4% Poet
39 Wilfred Owen 4.4k 57.3 71.6% Poet
40 Seamus Heaney 3.9k 34.0 77.0% Poet
41 Miguel de Cervantes 3.9k 27.1 61.4% Poet
42 Amanda Gorman 3.6k 30.2 67.6% Poet
43 Ikkyū 3.5k 31.7 79.1% Poet
44 John Cooper Clarke 3.4k 45.4 32.5% Poet
45 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3.3k 36.0 84.0% Poet
46 Wole Soyinka 2.9k 32.5 55.9% Poet
47 Friedrich Schiller 2.9k 38.9 60.2% Poet
48 Vinicius de Moraes 2.9k 25.6 71.0% Poet
49 Michael Morpurgo 2.9k 43.2 83.7% Poet
50 John Updike 2.8k 41.8 100.0% 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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