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Kanō Tan'yū

1602 - 1674

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Kanō Tan'yū (狩野 探幽; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.noː (|) ta(ꜜ)ɰ̃.jɯː], 4 March 1602 – 4 November 1674) was a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters of the Tokugawa period, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan'yū. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kanō Tan'yū is the 1,327th most popular painter (up from 1,516th in 2019), the 1,012th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,078th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,327 out of 2,023. Before him are Hans Erni, Cuno Amiet, Dai Jin, Robert Motherwell, Jankel Adler, and Olga Wisinger-Florian. After him are Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Aleksandr Deyneka, Edgar Ende, Bertalan Székely, Serge Poliakoff, and Louis Hersent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1602, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 16. Before him are Per Brahe the Younger, William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Zhu Yujian, Gilles de Roberval, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, and Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau. After him are Evert van Aelst, and William Lawes. Among people deceased in 1674, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 17. Before him are Hallgrímur Pétursson, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Mehmed IV Giray, Matthias Weckmann, Ebba Brahe, and Johannes Lingelbach. After him are Pieter Boel, Hu Zhengyan, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Karel Škréta, Robert Herrick, and Thomas Traherne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 1,012 out of 6,245. Before him are Takuya Kimura (1972), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Nobuyo Fujishiro (1960), and Kunio Yanagita (1875). After him are Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Kenta Komatsu (1988), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Doppo Kunikida (1871), and Toshio Matsuura (1955).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kanō Tan'yū ranks 20. Before him are Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), On Kawara (1932), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), and Torii Kiyonobu I (1664). After him are Unkei (1151), Tarō Okamoto (1911), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Ogata Kenzan (1663), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), and Hiroshi Yoshida (1876).

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