← Fame through time1400-1499
The 15th century
Whose working lives fell in the 15th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 15th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ikkyū Sōjun0 decades - 2
Go-Hanazono0 decades - 3
Go-Komatsu0 decades - 4
Sesshū Tōyō0 decades - 5
Go-Kashiwabara0 decades - 6
Go-Tsuchimikado0 decades - 7
Ashikaga Yoshimasa0 decades - 8
Shōkōnot measured- - 9
Hōjō Sōunnot measured- - 10
Ashikaga Yoshihisa0 decades - 11
Ashikaga Yoshinori0 decades - 12
Ashikaga Yoshimochi0 decades - 13
Ashikaga Yoshikazunot measured- - 14
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu0 decades - 15
Hosokawa Katsumoto0 decades - 16
Ōta Dōkan0 decades - 17
Rennyo3 decades - 18
Yamana Sōzennot measured- - 19
Tenshō Shūbunnot measured- - 20
Kanō Masanobunot measured- - 21Hino Tomiko0 decades
- 22
Amago Tsunehisanot measured- - 23
Josetsu0 decades - 24
Tosa Mitsunobu0 decades - 25
Sōginot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.