# Donald Keene

> Donald Lawrence Keene was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer, and translator of Japanese literature. He was Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years. Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kīn Donarudo which is essentially his birth name in the Japanese name order. This was also his poetic pen name  and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form 鬼怒鳴門.

*Japanese/American academic (1922-2019)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1922-06-18
- **Died:** 2019-02-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.8 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 18.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 54.2 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
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- [دونالد كين](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86)
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- [도널드 킨](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EB%84%90%EB%93%9C_%ED%82%A8)
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- [Кин, Дональд Лоуренс](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81)
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- [Donald Keene](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Keene)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1240040)

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