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Ogata Kōrin

1658 - 1716

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Ogata Kōrin (Japanese: 尾形光琳; 1658 – June 2, 1716) was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School. Kōrin is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms (both registered National Treasures), and his paintings on ceramics and lacquerware produced by his brother Kenzan (1663–1743). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ogata Kōrin has received more than 149,984 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ogata Kōrin is the 813th most popular painter (up from 842nd in 2019), the 641st most popular biography from Japan (up from 665th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ogata Kōrin ranks 813 out of 2,023. Before him are Kurt Westergaard, Konstantin Korovin, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Frans Floris, Bada Shanren, and Abraham Janssens. After him are Ľudovít Fulla, Franz von Lenbach, George Stubbs, Giovanni Baglione, Sebastiaen Vrancx, and Sidney Paget.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1658, Ogata Kōrin ranks 6. Before him are Giuseppe Torelli, Mary of Modena, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili. After him are Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Nicolas Coustou, Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Among people deceased in 1716, Ogata Kōrin ranks 8. Before him are Louis de Montfort, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Engelbert Kaempfer, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Giovanni Battista Bassani, and Tokugawa Ietsugu. After him are Roger Cotes, Anthim the Iberian, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Charles de La Fosse, Banda Singh Bahadur, and Dorothe Engelbretsdatter.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ogata Kōrin ranks 641 out of 6,245. Before him are Takashi Mizuno (1931), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), and Sen Katayama (1859). After him are Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Yasuo Haruyama (1906), Masaharu Homma (1888), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), and Takashi Murakami (1962).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Ogata Kōrin ranks 11. Before him are Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), and Masaaki Hatsumi (1931). After him are Takashi Murakami (1962), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), and Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570).

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