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Kanō Eitoku

1543 - 1590

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Kanō Eitoku (狩野 永徳; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.noː (|) e(ꜜ)i.tokɯ, -e(ꜜ)ː-], February 16, 1543 – October 12, 1590) was a Japanese painter who lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history and one of the most prominent patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kanō Eitoku is the 856th most popular painter (up from 952nd in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from Japan (down from 736th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Eitoku ranks 856 out of 2,023. Before him are Jacob Philipp Hackert, Walter Sickert, Jean François de Troy, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Roman Opałka, and Marinus van Reymerswaele. After him are Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Lucia Anguissola, Anna Lea Merritt, Richard Parkes Bonington, and Gustave Boulanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1543, Kanō Eitoku ranks 8. Before him are Domenico Fontana, 3rd Dalai Lama, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Claudio Acquaviva, and John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern. After him are Michele Ruggieri, Christine of Hesse, Giovanni de' Medici, Giovanni Bembo, and Juan de la Cueva. Among people deceased in 1590, Kanō Eitoku ranks 16. Before him are Catherine of Ricci, Marietta Robusti, Maddalena Casulana, Giambattista Benedetti, Leone Leoni, and François Hotman. After him are Hōjō Ujimasa, Frans Hogenberg, Charles de Bourbon, André Thevet, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, and Germain Pilon.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Eitoku ranks 746 out of 6,245. Before him are Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Prince Morikuni (1301), Toshio Takabayashi (1953), Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), and Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515). After him are Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Tsutomu Sonobe (1958), Kitaro Nishida (1870), and Riyoko Ikeda (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Eitoku ranks 13. Before him are Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Yoshitoshi (1839), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658). After him are Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), On Kawara (1932), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), and Torii Kiyonobu I (1664).

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