1760 - 1849
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hokusai has received more than 3,512,533 page views. His biography is available in 145 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 142 in 2019). Hokusai is the most popular artist, the 2nd 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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Among artists, Hokusai ranks 1 out of 78. After him are Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jusepe de Ribera, Victor Vasarely, Jean Arp, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Hiroshige.
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 1
1928 - 1987
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 2
1887 - 1968
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 3
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 4
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 5
1497 - 1545
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 6
1591 - 1652
HPI: 71.16
Rank: 7
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 8
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 9
1921 - 1986
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 10
1928 - 1962
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 11
1797 - 1858
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 12
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, Camille Desmoulins, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Among people deceased in 1849, Hokusai ranks 4. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, and James K. Polk. After him are Johann Strauss I, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, William II of the Netherlands, Anne Brontë, Charles Albert of Sardinia, Sándor Petőfi, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, and Heonjong of Joseon.
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 1
1760 - 1829
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 2
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 3
1760 - 1842
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 4
1760 - 1820
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 5
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 6
1760 - 1794
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 7
1760 - 1836
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 8
1760 - 1794
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 9
1760 - 1852
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 10
1760 - 1831
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 11
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 12
1810 - 1849
HPI: 88.83
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1795 - 1849
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 3
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 4
1804 - 1849
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 5
1769 - 1849
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 6
1792 - 1849
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 7
1820 - 1849
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
1798 - 1849
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 9
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 10
1780 - 1849
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 11
1827 - 1849
HPI: 65.38
Rank: 12
Among people born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 2 out of 6,048. Before him are Hirohito (1901). After him are Akihito (1933), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Oda Nobunaga (1534), Emperor Meiji (1852), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), and Haruki Murakami (1949).
1901 - 1989
HPI: 82.41
Rank: 1
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 2
1933 - Present
HPI: 79.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1998
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 4
1941 - Present
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 5
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 6
1534 - 1582
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 7
1852 - 1912
HPI: 77.12
Rank: 8
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 9
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 10
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 11
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 12
Among artists born in Japan, Hokusai ranks 1. After him are Yoko Ono (1933), Hiroshige (1797), Akira Yoshizawa (1911), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), and Yoshitomo Nara (1959).
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 1
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 2
1797 - 1858
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 3
1911 - 2005
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 4
1952 - Present
HPI: 54.03
Rank: 5
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 6