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Kunisada

1786 - 1865

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Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunisada has received more than 252,052 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kunisada is the 586th most popular painter (down from 527th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 328th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Painter.

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  • 58.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kunisada ranks 586 out of 2,023. Before him are Andrea Pozzo, Joos van Cleve, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Fernand Cormon, Constantin Meunier, and Henri-Edmond Cross. After him are Oswald Achenbach, Francesco del Cossa, Juan de Flandes, Konstantin Makovsky, Jasper Johns, and Jozef Israëls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Kunisada ranks 18. Before him are John Franklin, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, Friedrich Kuhlau, Guadalupe Victoria, Chief Seattle, and Duke Pius August in Bavaria. After him are Ludwig Börne, François-Édouard Picot, William George Horner, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and Gaspar del Bufalo. Among people deceased in 1865, Kunisada ranks 21. Before him are Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Heinrich Barth, Shoqan Walikhanov, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Giuditta Pasta. After him are Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Constant Troyon, George Phillips Bond, Shigechiyo Izumi, Joseph Paxton, and James Barry.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 402 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokugawa Ienari (1773), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Juntoku (1197), Ono no Komachi (825), Yodo-dono (1569), and Shuji Nakamura (1954). After him are Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Tetsu Katayama (1887), Saizo Saito (1908), Seki Takakazu (1642), and Seishiro Shimatani (1938).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 9. Before him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), and Yoshitoshi (1839). After him are Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Takashi Murakami (1962), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), and Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539).

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