Sword hunt

Sword hunt - the seizure of swords and a variety of other weapons from civilians in Japanese history. Article “Sword hunt” in English Wikipedia has 20 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 5 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.05 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Since the creation of article “Sword hunt”, its content was written by 44 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 181 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in English Wikipedia and cited 528 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #49306 in February 2021
• Global: #16460 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #257045 in July 2021
• Global: #150123 in July 2008

There are 10 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, 2026 (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	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		35.964
2	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		26.7616
3	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		24.7231
4	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		24.3556
5	English (en) Sword hunt		19.9656
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		9.7123
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		8.2076
8	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		8.0358
9	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		3.5234
10	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		2.9257

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sword hunt" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		901 389
2	English (en) Sword hunt		321 231
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		108 738
4	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		43 873
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		19 106
6	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		7 092
7	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		4 424
8	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		3 537
9	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		1 317
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		180

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Sword hunt" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		1 737
2	English (en) Sword hunt		1 712
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		514
4	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		262
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		43
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		32
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		31
8	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		17
9	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		12
10	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		8

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

Language versions of the article "Sword hunt" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		81
2	English (en) Sword hunt		44
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		16
4	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		13
5	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		9
6	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		6
7	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		5
8	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		3
9	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		2
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		2

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

Language versions of the article "Sword hunt" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		1
2	English (en) Sword hunt		0
3	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		0
4	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		0
5	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		0
6	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		0
7	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		0
8	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		0
10	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		0

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

Language versions of the article "Sword hunt" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 刀狩		200
2	Korean (ko) 칼사냥		106
3	Chinese (zh) 刀狩令		105
4	Persian (fa) شکار شمشیر		68
5	English (en) Sword hunt		23
6	Russian (ru) Охота за мечами		11
7	French (fr) Chasse aux épées		7
8	Ukrainian (uk) Полювання за мечами		4
9	Polish (pl) Polowanie na miecze		3
10	Serbian (sr) Лов на мачеве		1

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#	Language	Value
en	English Sword hunt
fa	Persian شکار شمشیر
fr	French Chasse aux épées
ja	Japanese 刀狩
ko	Korean 칼사냥
pl	Polish Polowanie na miecze
ru	Russian Охота за мечами
sr	Serbian Лов на мачеве
uk	Ukrainian Полювання за мечами
zh	Chinese 刀狩令

Best Rank

English: #257045 07.2021

Global: #150123 07.2008

Best Rank

English: #49306 02.2021

Global: #16460 10.2003

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