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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
51 John Updike 2.8k 41.8 100.0% Poet
52 Octavio Paz 2.7k 26.9 68.1% Poet
53 Iris Murdoch 2.7k 26.9 70.6% Poet
54 Augustine of Hippo 2.6k 29.7 60.6% Poet
55 Husayn ibn Ali 2.5k 24.8 15.3% Poet
56 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2.5k 41.8 73.8% Poet
57 E. E. Cummings 2.4k 48.9 88.7% Poet
58 Qianlong Emperor 2.3k 22.5 55.3% Poet
59 Robert Graves 2.3k 56.3 85.2% Poet
60 Lucan 1.9k 40.5 76.6% Poet
61 John Henry Newman 1.9k 42.1 63.3% Poet
62 Giacomo Casanova 1.8k 30.7 44.4% Poet
63 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 1.8k 31.1 10.1% Poet
64 Algernon Charles Swinburne 1.6k 54.8 100.0% Poet
65 Muhammad al-Bukhari 1.5k 32.5 38.0% Poet
66 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1.5k 43.4 8.7% Poet
67 Ferdowsi 1.5k 37.4 65.1% Poet
68 Nur Jahan 1.5k 27.9 0.0% Poet
69 Mehmet Akif Ersoy 1.4k 40.3 41.2% Poet
70 Ibn Taymiyyah 1.4k 23.7 30.7% Poet
71 Adam Mickiewicz 1.3k 29.8 66.9% Poet
72 Anne Brontë 1.2k 40.8 60.6% Poet
73 Nizami Ganjavi 1.2k 54.7 62.8% Poet
74 Satguru 1.2k 31.7 27.9% Poet
75 Faiz Ahmad Faiz 939 26.4 12.1% 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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