PAINTER

Torii Kiyonaga

1752 - 1815

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Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese: 鳥居 清長; 1752 – June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, from Motozaimokuchō Itchōme in Edo, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torii Kiyonaga has received more than 90,552 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Torii Kiyonaga is the 965th most popular painter (down from 895th in 2019), the 740th most popular biography from Japan (down from 704th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Torii Kiyonaga ranks 965 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Vanessa Bell, Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, Giovanni di Paolo, Giovanni Giacometti, and Paul Émile Chabas. After him are Carlo Saraceni, Olga Boznańska, Boris Vallejo, Apollodorus, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Ambrosius Holbein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Torii Kiyonaga ranks 22. Before him are John Nash, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Andrey Razumovsky, Betsy Ross, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. After him are Anton Walter, Alexander Tormasov, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Frances Burney, and Maurice d'Elbée. Among people deceased in 1815, Torii Kiyonaga ranks 18. Before him are 9th Dalai Lama, Smithson Tennant, Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ahmad al-Tijani, James Gillray, and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After him are Matthias Claudius, Solomon II of Imereti, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Carl Johan Adlercreutz, Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, and Francesco Bartolozzi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Torii Kiyonaga ranks 740 out of 6,245. Before him are Kisshomaru Ueshiba (1921), George Ohsawa (1893), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Soga no Umako (551), and Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394). After him are Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Ōtomo Sōrin (1530), Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Koichi Oita (1914), Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962), and Shinya Yamanaka (1962).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Torii Kiyonaga ranks 14. Before him are Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Kanō Eitoku (1543). After him are Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kuroda Seiki (1866), and On Kawara (1932).

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