PAINTER

Masaaki Hatsumi

1931 - Today

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Masaaki Hatsumi (初見 良昭, Hatsumi Masaaki, born December 2, 1931), formerly Yoshiaki Hatsumi, is the founder of the Bujinkan Organization and is the former Togakure-ryū soke (grandmaster). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Masaaki Hatsumi has received more than 418,819 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Masaaki Hatsumi is the 730th most popular painter (down from 642nd in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Japan (down from 466th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 420k

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  • 56.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Masaaki Hatsumis by language

Over the past year Masaaki Hatsumi has had the most page views in the with 45,140 views, followed by Japanese (21,734), and Spanish (11,454). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (95.96%), Arabic (43.25%), and Egyptian Arabic (40.11%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Masaaki Hatsumi ranks 730 out of 2,023Before him are Govert Flinck, Evelyn De Morgan, Francisco Herrera the Elder, Francesco Botticini, Mihály Munkácsy, and Marcello Bacciarelli. After him are Emil Orlík, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Marie Bracquemond, Paolo Veneziano, Viktor Hartmann, and Mihály Zichy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Masaaki Hatsumi ranks 126Before him are Arawa Kimura, Viliam Schrojf, Alfred Schmidt, Zeki Müren, Margarita Lozano, and Marianne Koch. After him are Haya Harareet, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Uri Orlev, Colin Wilson, Shadia, and Claire Bloom.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Masaaki Hatsumi ranks 574 out of 6,245Before him are Yanosuke Watanabe (null), Emperor Suzaku (923), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Senhime (1597), Doppo Kunikida (1871), and Emperor Murakami (926). After him are Koji Funamoto (1942), Yasukazu Tanaka (1933), Masako Nozawa (1936), Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Ken Takakura (1931), and Kinjiro Shimizu (null).

Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Masaaki Hatsumi ranks 10Before him are Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Yoshitoshi (1839), and Kunisada (1786). After him are Ogata Kōrin (1658), Takashi Murakami (1962), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), and Utagawa Toyokuni (1769).