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Utamaro

1753 - 1806

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Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: 喜多川 歌麿; c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Utamaro has received more than 511,723 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Utamaro is the 194th most popular painter (down from 152nd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Japan (down from 50th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Painter.

Utamaro is most famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Utamaro ranks 194 out of 2,023. Before him are Domenichino, Hans Baldung, Sonia Delaunay, Helene Schjerfbeck, Giulio Romano, and Lucas Cranach the Younger. After him are Pieter de Hooch, Pietro da Cortona, Henry Fuseli, Zdzisław Beksiński, Pisanello, and Quentin Matsys.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Utamaro ranks 5. Before him are Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Joseph de Maistre, Lazare Carnot, and Jean-Baptiste Kléber. After him are Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans. Among people deceased in 1806, Utamaro ranks 5. Before him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Charles-Henri Sanson, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. After him are William V, Prince of Orange, William Pitt the Younger, Michael Haydn, Carlo Gozzi, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Utamaro ranks 76 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Toriyama (1955), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Shirō Ishii (1892), Date Masamune (1567), Sonny Chiba (1939), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954). After him are Dōgen (1200), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Nichiren (1222), Emperor Annei (-577), Jiro Horikoshi (1903), and Tōgō Heihachirō (1848).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Utamaro ranks 2. Before him are Yayoi Kusama (1929). After him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Ogata Kōrin (1658), and Takashi Murakami (1962).

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