Artist

Hokusai

Japanese artist

1760 - 1849

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His biography is available in 155 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 149 in 2024). Hokusai is the most popular artist, the 3rd most popular biography from Japan and the most popular Japanese Artist.

Hokusai is most famous for his series of prints called Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.

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#3 / 6,943

Hokusai ranks #3 among 6,943 people in Pantheon born in Japan, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Hokusai's biography appears in 155 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Artists.

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Hokusai's biography was added to 6 new Wikipedia language editions in the past year.

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Among Artists

Among artists, Hokusai ranks 1 out of 139. After him are Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, and Joseph Beuys.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Pope Leo XII, Henri de Saint-Simon, Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, Akbar II, Camille Desmoulins, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, and Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. Among people deceased in 1849, Hokusai ranks 4. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, and James K. Polk. After him are Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Johann Strauss I, Anne Brontë, William II of the Netherlands, Sándor Petőfi, France Prešeren, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Charles Albert of Sardinia.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 3 out of 6,943. Before him are Hirohito (1901), and Matsuo Bashō (1644). After him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536).

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Among Artists In Japan

Among artists born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Yoko Ono (1933), Hiroshige (1797), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hasui Kawase (1883), Yoshitomo Nara (1959), Chiharu Shiota (1972), and Tatsuki Fujimoto (1993).

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