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Kunisada

1786 - 1865

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Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kunisada is the 577th most popular painter (up from 586th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from Japan (down from 402nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Kunisada ranks 577 out of 2,023. Before him are Jules Bastien-Lepage, Max Pechstein, Raoul Hausmann, Tsuguharu Foujita, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Dorothea Tanning. After him are Jens Juel, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Michael Pacher, Asger Jorn, Marià Fortuny, and Jacques Lipchitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Kunisada ranks 20. Before him are Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, François-Édouard Picot, Guadalupe Victoria, John Franklin, Giovanni Battista Amici, and Duke Pius August in Bavaria. After him are Chief Seattle, Ludwig Börne, Nathaniel Wallich, Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, and William George Horner. Among people deceased in 1865, Kunisada ranks 21. Before him are Heinrich Barth, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Princess Sophie of Sweden, and John Lindley. After him are Felice Romani, Constant Troyon, Shoqan Walikhanov, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Madeleine Sophie Barat, and George Phillips Bond.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 497 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Go-Suzaku (1009), Tokugawa Iesada (1824), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Masafumi Hara (1943), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), and Fumihiko Maki (1928). After him are Takeo Takahashi (1947), Mōri Terumoto (1533), Saitō Hajime (1844), Seki Takakazu (1642), Eisai (1141), and Kenzō Takada (1939).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Kunisada ranks 8. Before him are Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797), Utamaro (1753), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), and Tsuguharu Foujita (1886). After him are Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Yoshitoshi (1839), Takashi Murakami (1962), Ogata Kōrin (1658), Kanō Eitoku (1543), and Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539).

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