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Kanō Eitoku

1543 - 1590

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Kanō Eitoku (狩野 永徳, February 16, 1543 – October 12, 1590) was a Japanese painter who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history and one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kanō Eitoku has received more than 86,777 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kanō Eitoku is the 894th most popular painter (up from 1,023rd in 2019), the 705th most popular biography from Japan (up from 814th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Eitoku ranks 894 out of 1,421Before him are Dmitry Levitzky, Luis Ricardo Falero, Vanessa Bell, Paul Émile Chabas, Simon de Vlieger, and Renato Guttuso. After him are Gaspard Dughet, Torii Kiyonaga, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Per Kirkeby, Eustache Le Sueur, and François-Xavier Fabre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1543, Kanō Eitoku ranks 8Before him are William Byrd, 3rd Dalai Lama, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Claudio Acquaviva, and John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern. After him are Michele Ruggieri, Giovanni Bembo, Christine of Hesse, Giovanni de' Medici, and Juan de la Cueva. Among people deceased in 1590, Kanō Eitoku ranks 20Before him are Maddalena Casulana, Germain Pilon, Hōjō Ujimasa, François Hotman, Catherine of Ricci, and Frans Hogenberg. After him are Dirck Coornhert, Robert Garnier, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, and Johann Fischart.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Eitoku ranks 705 out of 6,048Before him are Koji Funamoto (1942), Yoshio Fujiwara (null), Yumi Umeoka (1950), Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662), Arawa Kimura (1931), and Tanzan Ishibashi (1884). After him are Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Takehiko Kawanishi (1938), and Keigo Higashino (1958).

Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Eitoku ranks 13Before him are Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658). After him are Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), and On Kawara (1932).