陰翳禮讚

In Praise of Shadows - essay by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. This book is the 3126^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “陰翳禮讚” in Chinese Wikipedia has 44.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “陰翳禮讚”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 190 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

In Praise of Shadows is on the 3126^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 287 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #3242 in April 2022
• Global: #102220 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #77714 in September 2024
• Global: #123814 in January 2021

There are 13 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	Chinese (zh) 陰翳禮讚		44.567
2	German (de) Lob des Schattens		33.4339
3	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		32.0518
4	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		27.6892
5	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		24.3979
6	Russian (ru) Похвала тени		18.2227
7	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		16.7254
8	Greek (el) Το εγκώμιο της σκιάς		14.7209
9	Korean (ko) 음예예찬		10.0392
10	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		3.5761

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

The most popular language versions of the article "陰翳禮讚" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		654 549
2	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		578 418
3	Spanish (es) El elogio de la sombra		181 138
4	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		168 857
5	German (de) Lob des Schattens		66 698
6	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		54 392
7	Chinese (zh) 陰翳禮讚		27 677
8	Russian (ru) Похвала тени		21 305
9	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		6 974
10	Persian (fa) در ستایش سایه‌ها		2 011

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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 "陰翳禮讚" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		4 109
2	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		3 828
3	Spanish (es) El elogio de la sombra		1 239
4	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		984
5	Chinese (zh) 陰翳禮讚		633
6	German (de) Lob des Schattens		387
7	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		319
8	Russian (ru) Похвала тени		270
9	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		78
10	Korean (ko) 음예예찬		75

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		51
2	German (de) Lob des Schattens		25
3	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		25
4	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		21
5	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		21
6	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		15
7	Spanish (es) El elogio de la sombra		12
8	Russian (ru) Похвала тени		6
9	Chinese (zh) 陰翳禮讚		5
10	Persian (fa) در ستایش سایه‌ها		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 "陰翳禮讚" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		2
2	German (de) Lob des Schattens		1
3	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		1
4	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		0
5	Greek (el) Το εγκώμιο της σκιάς		0
6	Spanish (es) El elogio de la sombra		0
7	Basque (eu) Itzalen gorazarrean		0
8	Persian (fa) در ستایش سایه‌ها		0
9	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		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 "陰翳禮讚" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) In Praise of Shadows		196
2	Japanese (ja) 陰翳礼讃		45
3	French (fr) Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)		19
4	German (de) Lob des Schattens		12
5	Persian (fa) در ستایش سایه‌ها		4
6	Spanish (es) El elogio de la sombra		3
7	Catalan (ca) Elogi de l'ombra		2
8	Italian (it) Libro d'ombra		2
9	Chinese (zh) 陰翳禮讚		2
10	Korean (ko) 음예예찬		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Elogi de l'ombra
de	German Lob des Schattens
el	Greek Το εγκώμιο της σκιάς
en	English In Praise of Shadows
es	Spanish El elogio de la sombra
eu	Basque Itzalen gorazarrean
fa	Persian در ستایش سایه‌ها
fr	French Éloge de l'ombre (Tanizaki)
it	Italian Libro d'ombra
ja	Japanese 陰翳礼讃
ko	Korean 음예예찬
ru	Russian Похвала тени
zh	Chinese 陰翳禮讚

Best Rank

Chinese: #77714 09.2024

Global: #123814 01.2021

Best Rank

Chinese: #3242 04.2022

Global: #102220 09.2010

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