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Utagawa Toyokuni

1769 - 1825

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Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: 歌川豊国; 1769 in Edo – 24 February 1825 in Edo), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Utagawa Toyokuni has received more than 77,794 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Utagawa Toyokuni is the 1,193rd most popular painter, the 897th most popular biography from Japan and the 20th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 1,193 out of 1,421. Before him are Vicente López Portaña, Mårten Eskil Winge, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Edward Poynter, Valerio Adami, and Giuseppe De Nittis. After him are George Hendrik Breitner, Joaquín Sabina, József Rippl-Rónai, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Juan Fernández Navarrete, and L. S. Lowry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 27. Before him are Aleksey Arakcheyev, François Séverin Marceau, Ignacio Allende, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Simón Rodríguez. After him are Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Nannette Streicher, Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Garlieb Merkel, Marc Isambard Brunel, and Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. Among people deceased in 1825, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 25. Before him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Daniel D. Tompkins, Jan Václav Voříšek, Peter Winter, and Johann Friedrich Pfaff. After him are Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Pierre Gaveaux, Juan Martín Díez, and Johann Karl Burckhardt.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 897 out of 6,048. Before him are Masashi Watanabe (1936), Kunio Yanagita (1875), Shoji Nishio (1927), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shigeru Umebayashi (1951), and Tokugawa Nariaki (1800). After him are Hisashi Owada (1932), Hiraga Gennai (1728), Tadao Kobayashi (1930), Tokutaro Ukon (1913), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 20. Before him are Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), and On Kawara (1932). After him are Tarō Okamoto (1911), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), and Uemura Shōen (1875).

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