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Tawaraya Sōtatsu

1570 - 1643

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Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋 宗達; c. 1570 – c. 1640) was a Japanese furniture designer and painter of the Rinpa school. Sōtatsu is best known for his decorations of calligraphic works by his partner Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637), and his spectacular and highly influential byōbu folding screens, such as National Treasures Wind God and Thunder God and his painting of the Sekiya and Miotsukushi chapters from The Tale of Genji. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tawaraya Sōtatsu is the 1,183rd most popular painter (up from 1,214th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Japan (down from 915th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Tawaraya Sōtatsu ranks 1,183 out of 2,023. Before him are Giovanni Battista Crespi, Maso di Banco, Mariam Aslamazian, Antoine Coypel, Michiel Sweerts, and Marcel Broodthaers. After him are Ambrosius Holbein, Antiphilus, Jan Rustem, Douris, Robert Peake the Elder, and Paja Jovanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1570, Tawaraya Sōtatsu ranks 14. Before him are Hendrick van Balen the Elder, Giorgi Saakadze, Péter Pázmány, Kara Davud Pasha, Alessandro Salvio, and Abraham Janssens. After him are Salamone Rossi, Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Melchior Vulpius. Among people deceased in 1643, Tawaraya Sōtatsu ranks 14. Before him are Giovanni Baglione, Hendrik Brouwer, Benedetto Castelli, Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, Herman Wrangel, and Frang Bardhi. After him are Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg, Marco da Gagliano, Christoph Demantius, and Anne Hutchinson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tawaraya Sōtatsu ranks 934 out of 6,245. Before him are Inō Tadataka (1745), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Osachi Hamaguchi (1870), and Yamamoto Kansuke (1493). After him are Fumiko Enchi (1905), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Tetsuo Sugamata (1957), Masujiro Nishida (1899), Kyuichi Tokuda (1894), and Yasuhiko Okudera (1952).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Tawaraya Sōtatsu ranks 18. Before him are Ogata Kōrin (1658), Kanō Eitoku (1543), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), On Kawara (1932), Torii Kiyonaga (1752), and Kanō Motonobu (1476). After him are Torii Kiyonobu I (1664), Kanō Tan'yū (1602), Unkei (1151), Tarō Okamoto (1911), Kuroda Seiki (1866), and Ogata Kenzan (1663).

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