Japanese sword

Quality:

Japanese sword - traditionally made sword from Japan. Article “Japanese sword” in English Wikipedia has 92.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 201 references and 25 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Japanese sword” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Japanese sword”, its content was written by 667 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1568 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 436 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3717 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #656 in February 2005
• Global: #781 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16104 in March 2008
• Global: #8917 in March 2008

There are 23 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	Spanish (es) Espada japonesa		94.6702
2	English (en) Japanese sword		92.3314
3	Japanese (ja) 日本刀		88.2782
4	Chinese (zh) 日本刀		55.63
5	Russian (ru) Японский меч		46.293
6	French (fr) Sabre japonais		36.5045
7	German (de) Nihontō		34.9926
8	Italian (it) Spada giapponese		29.9943
9	Portuguese (pt) Espada japonesa		29.1543
10	Arabic (ar) سيف ياباني		29.0801

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 日本刀		6 925 613
2	English (en) Japanese sword		5 890 551
3	Russian (ru) Японский меч		1 395 061
4	Chinese (zh) 日本刀		1 257 688
5	French (fr) Sabre japonais		701 740
6	Vietnamese (vi) Nihontō		344 390
7	Spanish (es) Espada japonesa		333 576
8	Italian (it) Spada giapponese		222 000
9	German (de) Nihontō		156 507
10	Portuguese (pt) Espada japonesa		144 147

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) Japanese sword		13 086
2	Japanese (ja) 日本刀		9 933
3	Chinese (zh) 日本刀		3 371
4	Russian (ru) Японский меч		3 173
5	Spanish (es) Espada japonesa		1 107
6	French (fr) Sabre japonais		1 044
7	Italian (it) Spada giapponese		475
8	Portuguese (pt) Espada japonesa		415
9	Polish (pl) Nihon-tō		310
10	Korean (ko) 일본도		277

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese sword		667
2	Japanese (ja) 日本刀		324
3	Chinese (zh) 日本刀		134
4	French (fr) Sabre japonais		92
5	Italian (it) Spada giapponese		62
6	Russian (ru) Японский меч		55
7	Korean (ko) 일본도		38
8	German (de) Nihontō		34
9	Spanish (es) Espada japonesa		24
10	Esperanto (eo) Japana glavo		23

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) Japanese sword		3
2	Japanese (ja) 日本刀		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Nihontō		1
4	Arabic (ar) سيف ياباني		0
5	Catalan (ca) Espasa japonesa		0
6	German (de) Nihontō		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Japana glavo		0
8	Spanish (es) Espada japonesa		0
9	Persian (fa) شمشیر ژاپنی		0
10	French (fr) Sabre japonais		0

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

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