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Hishikawa Moronobu

1618 - 1694

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Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese: 菱川 師宣; 1618 – 25 July 1694) was a Japanese artist known for popularizing the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints and paintings in the late 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hishikawa Moronobu has received more than 210,308 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hishikawa Moronobu is the 537th most popular painter (up from 562nd in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Japan (up from 365th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Hishikawa Moronobu ranks 537 out of 2,023. Before him are Sebastiano Ricci, Justus van Gent, Georg Baselitz, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Jan Toorop, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori. After him are Dirck van Baburen, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Parrhasius, Naji al-Ali, Jost Amman, and Anton von Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Hishikawa Moronobu ranks 4. Before him are Aurangzeb, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and Elisabeth of the Palatinate. After him are Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Peter Lely, Jan Dirksz Both, Jeremiah Horrocks, Juraj Križanić, and Michiel Sweerts. Among people deceased in 1694, Hishikawa Moronobu ranks 11. Before him are Antoine Arnauld, Natalya Naryshkina, Francesco Morosini, Suleiman of Persia, Pierre Puget, and John George IV, Elector of Saxony. After him are Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Vittoria della Rovere, Johann Michael Bach, Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena, Ismaël Bullialdus, and John Michael Wright.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hishikawa Moronobu ranks 356 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshio Suzuki (1948), Takashi Kasahara (1918), Sadaharu Oh (1940), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), Taira no Masakado (903), and Ichirou Mizuki (1948). After him are Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Rokujō (1164), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Hideaki Anno (1960), Emperor Kōbun (648), and Emperor Konoe (1139).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Hishikawa Moronobu ranks 7. Before him are Yayoi Kusama (1929), Utamaro (1753), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), and Sesshū Tōyō (1420). After him are Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Kanō Eitoku (1543).

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