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Utagawa Toyokuni

1769 - 1825

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Utagawa Toyokuni (歌川 豊国; 1769 – 24 February 1825), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who elevated it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Utagawa Toyokuni is the 1,618th most popular painter (down from 1,163rd in 2019), the 1,192nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 866th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 1,618 out of 2,023. Before him are David Allan, Rockwell Kent, Isaac Oliver, Dirck Barendsz, Domenico di Bartolo, and Valentine Hugo. After him are Gustaf Lundberg, Thomas Bewick, Oleksandr Murashko, Frank Frazetta, Fyodor Bruni, and Anita Malfatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1769, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 39. Before him are Garlieb Merkel, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Simón Rodríguez, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Gaetano Savi, and George W. Campbell. After him are Jane Marcet, Vasily Stasov, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Andreas Miaoulis, and Friedrich Accum. Among people deceased in 1825, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 31. Before him are Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pierre Gaveaux, Peter Winter, Juan Martín Díez, Johann Karl Burckhardt, and Wilhelm Hemprich. After him are Maha Bandula, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Yakov Sannikov, Edward Pigott, Franciszek Karpiński, and Maria Angela Ardinghelli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 1,192 out of 6,245. Before him are Isuzu Yamada (1917), Mikio Oda (1905), Kenji Miyamoto (1908), Tomoko Ohara (1957), Tomoyasu Asaoka (1962), and Iccho Itoh (1945). After him are Kunio Maekawa (1905), Kishin Shinoyama (1940), Takuma Sato (1977), Yukitaka Omi (1952), Yoko Tawada (1960), and Yūjirō Ishihara (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Utagawa Toyokuni ranks 30. Before him are Ogata Kenzan (1663), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Uemura Shōen (1875), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726). After him are Hashimoto Gahō (1835), and Keiji Inafune (1965).

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