Edo period

Quality:

Edo period - period of Japanese history from 1600 to 1868, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. Article “Edo period” in English Wikipedia has 83.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 144 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.3 points.

This article has the best quality in Persian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9319^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 9136^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Edo period” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Edo period”, its content was written by 506 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2169 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7448 times in English Wikipedia (2769^th place) and cited 80498 times in all languages (2089^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4288 in December 2003
• Global: #3369 in March 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3021 in April 2024
• Global: #2573 in April 2024

There are 45 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Persian (fa) دوره ادو		94.754
2	French (fr) Époque d'Edo		94.7413
3	Slovenian (sl) Obdobje Edo		86.8452
4	English (en) Edo period		83.693
5	Japanese (ja) 江戸時代		75.2012
6	Catalan (ca) Període Edo		67.8853
7	Finnish (fi) Edo-kausi		67.2896
8	Spanish (es) Período Edo		66.2078
9	Simple English (simple) Edo period		65.5116
10	Czech (cs) Období Edo		62.8215

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edo period		9 596 731
2	Japanese (ja) 江戸時代		8 838 495
3	Chinese (zh) 江户时代		1 400 682
4	Spanish (es) Período Edo		1 310 251
5	French (fr) Époque d'Edo		1 252 815
6	Russian (ru) Период Эдо		1 052 873
7	German (de) Edo-Zeit		984 495
8	Italian (it) Periodo Edo		616 791
9	Portuguese (pt) Período Edo		483 720
10	Polish (pl) Edo (okres)		444 706

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Edo period		49 817
2	Japanese (ja) 江戸時代		26 242
3	Chinese (zh) 江户时代		8 457
4	Russian (ru) Период Эдо		6 039
5	Spanish (es) Período Edo		5 923
6	French (fr) Époque d'Edo		5 233
7	German (de) Edo-Zeit		4 518
8	Italian (it) Periodo Edo		2 949
9	Portuguese (pt) Período Edo		1 884
10	Polish (pl) Edo (okres)		1 516

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edo period		506
2	Japanese (ja) 江戸時代		300
3	French (fr) Époque d'Edo		157
4	German (de) Edo-Zeit		141
5	Italian (it) Periodo Edo		91
6	Chinese (zh) 江户时代		90
7	Russian (ru) Период Эдо		73
8	Dutch (nl) Edoperiode		68
9	Spanish (es) Período Edo		64
10	Hebrew (he) תקופת אדו		55

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Edo period		4
2	Persian (fa) دوره ادو		4
3	Finnish (fi) Edo-kausi		1
4	Hebrew (he) תקופת אדו		1
5	Japanese (ja) 江戸時代		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Período Edo		1
7	Arabic (ar) فترة إيدو		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Edo dövrü		0
9	Belarusian (be) Перыяд Эда		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Едо (период)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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