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Ikigai

Japanese concept describing a reason for being
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Ikigai

Summary

Ikigai ranks in the top 0.94% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,984 views/month, #730 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Ikigai is a type of cause[2].
  • Ikigai is a type of reason[3].
  • Ikigai's Commons category is recorded as Ikigai[4].
  • Ikigai's country of origin is recorded as Japan[5].
  • Ikigai's partially coincident with is recorded as raison d'être[6].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cause[2] and reason[3].

Why It Matters

Ikigai ranks in the top 0.94% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,984 views/month, #730 of 77,819).[1] Ikigai has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7]

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ikigai_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Ikigai}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ikigai}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 4w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Svkkl authority id → 0388709-ikigai
    Subject lexeme → {'id': 'L252319', 'numeric-id': 252319, 'entity-type': 'lexe
    Subclass of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0388709-ikigai, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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