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Uemura Shōen

1875 - 1949

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Uemura Shōen (上村 松園, April 23, 1875 – August 27, 1949) was the pseudonym of an artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga, or paintings of beautiful women, in the nihonga style, although she produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uemura Shōen has received more than 76,561 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Uemura Shōen is the 1,374th most popular painter (down from 1,205th in 2019), the 1,026th most popular biography from Japan (down from 960th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Uemura Shōen ranks 1,374 out of 1,421Before her are Georg Muche, Albert Chmielowski, Corneliu Baba, Fan Kuan, Leon Wyczółkowski, and Maria Lassnig. After her are Edmond Aman-Jean, Torii Kiyonobu I, Nicholas Hilliard, Andrea Benetti, Regina Ghazaryan, and Richard Estes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Uemura Shōen ranks 112Before her are Beppo Levi, Charles D. B. King, William D. Leahy, Eusebio Ayala, Fritz Manteuffel, and Henrik Sjöberg. After her are Marie Marvingt, Henri Callot, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Georgios Papasideris, Herman Georges Berger, and Leopold Andrian. Among people deceased in 1949, Uemura Shōen ranks 115Before her are Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Chairil Anwar, Makino Nobuaki, Edward Stettinius Jr., René Maire, and Carlo Galetti. After her are Lou Tseng-Tsiang, John Neville Keynes, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Émile Eddé, Elin Wägner, and Alexander Serafimovich.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Uemura Shōen ranks 1,026 out of 6,048Before her are Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), Ryuichi Sugiyama (1941), Noriko Ohara (1935), Toyohito Mochizuki (1953), Hidetoki Takahashi (1916), and Kenzo Yokoyama (1943). After her are Yoshitomo Nara (1959), Hiro Mashima (1977), Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Yukio Kasaya (1943), and Gotō Shōjirō (1838).

Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Uemura Shōen ranks 26Before her are Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Tarō Okamoto (1911), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726). After her are Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Ogata Kenzan (1663), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), and Keiji Inafune (1965).