Kishōtenketsu

Kishōtenketsu - narrative technique; the four-part structure of many classic Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese narratives, comprising introduction, development, twist or reversal, and resolution. Article “Kishōtenketsu” in Italian Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Kishōtenketsu”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 461 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #127730 in October 2020
• Global: #54327 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #207849 in January 2024
• Global: #53926 in June 2012

There are 9 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	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		39.9186
2	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		35.0626
3	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		28.4974
4	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		22.6658
5	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		14.755
6	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		11.2716
7	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		11.157
8	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		4.3033
9	Korean (ko) 기승전결		1.0788

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		2 205 417
2	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		671 152
3	Korean (ko) 기승전결		104 729
4	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		25 824
5	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		22 706
6	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		18 714
7	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		9 423
8	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		7 581
9	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		7 439

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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 "Kishōtenketsu" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		10 589
2	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		1 629
3	Korean (ko) 기승전결		603
4	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		534
5	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		249
6	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		219
7	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		210
8	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		145
9	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		103

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		61
2	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		46
3	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		7
4	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		7
5	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		7
6	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		6
7	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		5
8	Korean (ko) 기승전결		5
9	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		4

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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 "Kishōtenketsu" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		4
2	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		3
3	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		1
4	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		0
5	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		0
6	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		0
7	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		0
8	Korean (ko) 기승전결		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		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 "Kishōtenketsu" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Kishōtenketsu		230
2	Korean (ko) 기승전결		92
3	Japanese (ja) 起承転結		58
4	Portuguese (pt) Kishōtenketsu		56
5	German (de) Kishōtenketsu		10
6	Chinese (zh) 起承轉合		6
7	Spanish (es) Kishōtenketsu		4
8	Italian (it) Kishōtenketsu		4
9	French (fr) Kishōtenketsu		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Kishōtenketsu
en	English Kishōtenketsu
es	Spanish Kishōtenketsu
fr	French Kishōtenketsu
it	Italian Kishōtenketsu
ja	Japanese 起承転結
ko	Korean 기승전결
pt	Portuguese Kishōtenketsu
zh	Chinese 起承轉合

Best Rank

Italian: #207849 01.2024

Global: #53926 06.2012

Best Rank

Italian: #127730 10.2020

Global: #54327 08.2003

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