View results: Favorite Japanese person?

  • Murasaki Shikibu -author of [i]The Tale of Genji[/i]

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Sei Shonagon - author of [i]The Pillow Book[/i]

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Minamoto Yoritomo - established the Kamakura shogunate

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Ashikaga Takauji - established the Muromachi shogunate

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Oda Nobunaga - first great unifier

    Votes: 7 10.3%

  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi -second great unifier and noted Korea invader

    Votes: 3 4.4%

  • Miyamoto Musashi - secretly homosexual samurai of lore

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu - (founder of the namesake shogunate)

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Matsuo Basho - master haikuist

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Katsushika Hokusai - foremost ukiyo-e artist

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Meiji Tenno - first modern Japanese ruler thingy

    Votes: 2 2.9%

  • Soseki Natsume - pioneer of modern Japanese literature, wrote [i]I am a Cat[/i]

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ryonosuke Akutagawa - Japanese short story master

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Emp. Hirohito - Amaterasu incarnate

    Votes: 4 5.9%

  • Hideki Tojo - kill yourself if you like this guy

    Votes: 3 4.4%

  • Kawabata Yasunari - nobel-winning author of [i]Snow Country[/i]

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Mishima Yukio - author of [i]Sea of Fertility[/i] who committed seppuku on national television

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Osamu Tezuka - pioneer of anime, drew Astro Boy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kenzaburo Oe - second Japanese nobel winner, author of [i]The Silent Cry[/i]

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hayao Miyazaki - award-winning anime director

    Votes: 4 5.9%

  • Nobuo Uematsu - modern music composer of Final Fantasy fame

    Votes: 7 10.3%

  • Haruki Murakami - wildly popular contemporary author

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Junichiro Koizumi - former PM

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Abe, Aso, Fukuda, and other short reigning PM dweebs

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • you forgot X, jpn!!!!

    Votes: 30 44.1%
  • Total voters
    68
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