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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 51,925 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Kanō Tan'yū is the 1,516th most popular painter (down from 1,406th in 2019), the 1,078th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,054th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Painter.

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  • 50.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,516 out of 2,023. Before him are Ker-Xavier Roussel, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Luis Royo, Kristian Zahrtmann, Jean Broc, and Francesco Pesellino. After him are Qian Xuan, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, Fyodor Alekseyev, Joseph Ducreux, and Toyohara Chikanobu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 17. Before him are Zhu Yujian, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, and Evert van Aelst. After him is William Lawes. Among people deceased in 1674, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 20. Before him are Hu Zhengyan, Ebba Brahe, Matthias Weckmann, Johannes Lingelbach, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, and Pieter Boel. After him are Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Robert Herrick, and Thomas Traherne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,078 out of 6,245. Before him are Minoru Chiaki (1917), Sion Sono (1961), Kenichi Ohmae (1943), Shinichi Hoshi (1926), Haruhiko Kuroda (1944), and Tadahiko Ueda (1947). After him are Goro Yamada (1894), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), and Shigemi Ishii (1951).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 27. Before him are Kanō Motonobu (1476), Tarō Okamoto (1911), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), and Unkei (1151). After him are Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Uemura Shōen (1875), Ogata Kenzan (1663), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), and Keiji Inafune (1965).

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