斜陽

The Setting Sun - 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai. This book is the 2597^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 356^th most popular book in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “斜陽” in Japanese Wikipedia has 25.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 11 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “斜陽”, its content was written by 66 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Setting Sun is on the 356^th place in local ranking of books in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 2597^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 222 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 293 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #5251 in March 2016
• Global: #97735 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #2529 in September 2019
• Global: #59009 in September 2019

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, 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	English (en) The Setting Sun		34.784
2	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		32.925
3	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		30.3553
4	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		26.9469
5	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		25.3587
6	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		20.0941
7	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		15.1438
8	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		8.8549
9	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		6.9594
10	Spanish (es) El ocaso		1.0331

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		1 438 244
2	English (en) The Setting Sun		486 460
3	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		98 780
4	Spanish (es) El ocaso		40 680
5	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		35 140
6	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		9 761
7	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		1 237
8	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		701
9	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		539
10	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		217

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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 "斜陽" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		6 111
2	English (en) The Setting Sun		4 480
3	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		748
4	Spanish (es) El ocaso		448
5	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		392
6	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		103
7	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		39
8	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		21
9	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		16
10	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		10

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		66
2	English (en) The Setting Sun		43
3	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		15
4	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		15
5	Spanish (es) El ocaso		9
6	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		9
7	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		6
8	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		2
9	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		1
10	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		1

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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 "斜陽" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		2
2	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		0
4	English (en) The Setting Sun		0
5	Spanish (es) El ocaso		0
6	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		0
7	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		0
8	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		0
9	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		0
10	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		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 "斜陽" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 斜陽		222
2	English (en) The Setting Sun		30
3	Chinese (zh) 斜陽 (小說)		16
4	Latin (la) Sol occidens (mythistoria)		8
5	Azerbaijani (az) Batan günəş		5
6	Spanish (es) El ocaso		5
7	Georgian (ka) ჩამავალი მზე		3
8	Italian (it) Il sole si spegne		2
9	Portuguese (pt) The Setting Sun		2
10	Arabic (ar) الشمس الغاربة		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الشمس الغاربة
az	Azerbaijani Batan günəş
en	English The Setting Sun
es	Spanish El ocaso
it	Italian Il sole si spegne
ja	Japanese 斜陽
ka	Georgian ჩამავალი მზე
la	Latin Sol occidens (mythistoria)
pt	Portuguese The Setting Sun
zh	Chinese 斜陽 (小說)

Best Rank

Japanese: #2529 09.2019

Global: #59009 09.2019

Best Rank

Japanese: #5251 03.2016

Global: #97735 06.2014

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