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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 224,779 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Kunisada is the 530th most popular painter (up from 610th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from Japan (up from 463rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Painter.

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  • 220k

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  • 58.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kunisada ranks 530 out of 1,421. Before him are Michael Sittow, Hugo Simberg, Thomas Lawrence, Clara Peeters, Willem Kalf, and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. After him are Philips Wouwerman, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, John William Godward, Roelant Savery, Hans Bellmer, and Boris Kustodiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Kunisada ranks 19. Before him are Davy Crockett, Friedrich Kuhlau, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Chief Seattle, and Guadalupe Victoria. After him are William George Horner, François-Édouard Picot, Ludwig Börne, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gaspar del Bufalo, and Julius Jacob von Haynau. Among people deceased in 1865, Kunisada ranks 19. Before him are Robert FitzRoy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Shoqan Walikhanov, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and Shigechiyo Izumi. After him are Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Joseph Paxton, Johann Franz Encke, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Sebastián Iradier, and Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 330 out of 6,048. Before him are Hisataka Okamoto (1933), Kōki Hirota (1878), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Minoru Genda (1904), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442). After him are Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), Junji Nishikawa (1907), Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), and Satoshi Nakamoto (1975).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 8. Before him are Utamaro (1753), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), and Yoshitoshi (1839). After him are Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Takashi Murakami (1962), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Kanō Eitoku (1543), and Torii Kiyonaga (1752).

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