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The 9th century

Whose working lives fell in the 9th 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 9th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Sugawara no Michizane845-903 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  2. 2Emperor Saga786-842 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  3. 3Ono no Komachi825-900 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  4. 4Ariwara no Narihira825-880 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  5. 5Ennin793-864 · Japan · Writersnot measured-
  6. 6Ono no Takamura802-853 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  7. 7Minamoto no Tōru822-895 · Japan · Writersnot measured-
  8. 8Henjo816-890 · Japan · Writersnot measured-
  9. 9Enchin814-891 · Japan · Writers1 decades
  10. 10Ki no Tomonori850-904 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  11. 11Mibu no Tadamine860-920 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  12. 12Ariwara no Yukihira818-893 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  13. 13Sosei816-910 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  14. 14Fun'ya no Yasuhidedied 900 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  15. 15Ōtomo no Kuronushiborn 850 · Japan · Writersnot measured-
  16. 16Ki no Haseo845-912 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  17. 17Fujiwara no Toshiyukidied 901 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  18. 18Sugawara no Koreyoshi812-880 · Japan · Writers0 decades
  19. 19Minamoto no Yoshiari845-897 · Japan · Writersnot measured-
  20. 20Ono no Minemori778-830 · Japan · Writersnot 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.