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Utamaro

1753 - 1806

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Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川 歌麿; Japanese pronunciation: [ɯ.ta.ma.ɾo], c. 1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects. Little is known of Utamaro's life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Utamaro is the 355th most popular painter (down from 194th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Japan (down from 76th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Painter.

Utamaro is most famous for his portraits of beautiful women.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Utamaro ranks 355 out of 2,023. Before him are Marianne von Werefkin, Horace Vernet, Léon Bonnat, Anna Maria van Schurman, Philipp Otto Runge, and Jeanne Hébuterne. After him are Francesco Albani, Catharina van Hemessen, David Teniers the Younger, Michael Ancher, Francesco Melzi, and Aleksandra Ekster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1753, Utamaro ranks 10. Before him are Joseph de Maistre, Jean-Baptiste Kléber, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Benjamin Thompson, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans. After him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Franz Karl Achard, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Samuel Crompton, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Among people deceased in 1806, Utamaro ranks 15. Before him are Carlo Gozzi, Michael Haydn, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. After him are Nicolas Leblanc, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Michel Adanson, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Utamaro ranks 190 out of 6,245. Before him are Iwane Matsui (1878), Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Emperor Ōjin (210), Tomohiko Ikoma (1932), and Ken Watanabe (1959). After him are Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Akio Morita (1921), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), and Takeshi Inoue (1928).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Utamaro ranks 3. Before him are Yayoi Kusama (1929), and Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797). After him are Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Suzuki Harunobu (1725), Hishikawa Moronobu (1618), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Kunisada (1786), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Yoshitoshi (1839), Takashi Murakami (1962), and Ogata Kōrin (1658).

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