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Maruyama Ōkyo

1733 - 1795

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Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, traditional characters: 圓山 應舉, June 12, 1733 – August 31, 1795), born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century. He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school of painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maruyama Ōkyo has received more than 117,734 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Maruyama Ōkyo is the 1,435th most popular painter (down from 1,145th in 2019), the 1,031st most popular biography from Japan (down from 865th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Painter.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Maruyama Ōkyo ranks 1,435 out of 2,023. Before him are Józef Chełmoński, Jan Theuninck, Hermann Zapf, George Bellows, Chen Jiru, and Alexander Kanoldt. After him are Edwin Austin Abbey, Cosmas Damian Asam, Haddon Sundblom, Amalia Lindegren, Václav Brožík, and Jörg Immendorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Maruyama Ōkyo ranks 13. Before him are Hubert Robert, Jean-Charles de Borda, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Gottfried van Swieten, Daniel Solander, and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai. After him are George Read, Philip Carteret, Adam Naruszewicz, Johan Zoffany, Ismail III, and Richard Kirwan. Among people deceased in 1795, Maruyama Ōkyo ranks 29. Before him are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Grigory Shelikhov, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Henry Clinton, and Ranieri de' Calzabigi. After him are Eugenio Espejo, Ivan Betskoy, Johan Henric Kellgren, William Bradford, John Sullivan, and Josiah Bartlett.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Maruyama Ōkyo ranks 1,031 out of 6,245. Before him are Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Akira Terao (1947), and Yūjirō Ishihara (1934). After him are Mikio Sato (1928), Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Tōru Furuya (1953), Hideki Maeda (1954), Keizo Imai (1950), and Ken Ogata (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Maruyama Ōkyo ranks 24. Before him are Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kuroda Seiki (1866), On Kawara (1932), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Tarō Okamoto (1911), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726). After him are Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Unkei (1151), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Uemura Shōen (1875), and Ogata Kenzan (1663).

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