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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 445,059 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Utamaro is the 151st most popular painter (up from 184th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Japan (up from 60th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Painter.

Utamaro is most famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

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  • 450k

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  • 67.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Utamaro ranks 151 out of 1,421. Before him are Hugo van der Goes, Fernando Botero, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Filippino Lippi, Otto Dix, and Lavinia Fontana. After him are Gentile Bellini, William Hogarth, Jacob van Ruisdael, Antonello da Messina, Maurice Utrillo, and Frédéric Bazille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Utamaro ranks 1. After him are Joseph de Maistre, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Benjamin Thompson, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. Among people deceased in 1806, Utamaro ranks 3. Before him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. After him are Charles-Henri Sanson, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Carlo Gozzi, Michael Haydn, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and William Pitt the Younger.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Utamaro ranks 50 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Kōkaku (1771), Saigō Takamori (1828), Itō Hirobumi (1841), Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), and Takeda Shingen (1521). After him are Isao Takahata (1935), Soichiro Honda (1906), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Joan Fontaine (1917), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), and Empress Michiko (1934).

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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), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Yoshitoshi (1839), Kunisada (1786), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658).

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