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Kanō Tan'yū

1602 - 1674

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Kanō Tan'yū (狩野 探幽, 4 March 1602 – 4 November 1674) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kanō Tan'yū has received more than 48,351 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kanō Tan'yū is the 1,407th most popular painter (down from 1,227th in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from Japan (down from 971st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,407 out of 1,421Before him are Romanino, Theodor Philipsen, Toyohara Chikanobu, Ana Mendieta, Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Alexey Bogolyubov. After him are Lorenz Frølich, Robert Henri, Heinrich Campendonk, Carl Joseph Begas, Oldřich Lajsek, and Agnes Block.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 16Before him are Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Per Brahe the Younger, Zhu Yujian, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, and Evert van Aelst. After him are Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau and William Lawes. Among people deceased in 1674, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 16Before him are Hallgrímur Pétursson, Matthias Weckmann, Leonaert Bramer, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, and Hu Zhengyan. After him are Karel Škréta, Robert Herrick, and Thomas Traherne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,057 out of 6,048Before him are Tomitaro Makino (1862), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Tamlyn Tomita (1966), Kenji Miyamoto (1908), Sueo Ōe (1914), and Masujiro Nishida (1899). After him are Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904), Akira Ishida (1967), Hiroji Imamura (1949), Chieko Hase (1956), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), and Ogata Kenzan (1663).

Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 29Before him are Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Uemura Shōen (1875), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), and Toyohara Chikanobu (1838). After him are Ogata Kenzan (1663), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), and Keiji Inafune (1965).