Most Famous Japanese Artists & Designers

50 Japanese Artists & Designers in view out of 194

Art & Design 194
Japan 2,162
Hiroshige
Hiroshige Japanese Painter 1797 – 1858
#2,678
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama Japanese Artist Born 1929
#3,141
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando Japanese Architect Born 1941
#3,334
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama Japanese Manga Born 1955
#3,592
Kenzō Tange
Kenzō Tange Japanese Architect 1913 – 2005
#4,140
MK
Masashi Kishimoto Japanese Manga Born 1974
#5,438
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami Japanese Sculptor Born 1962
#5,562
Naoki Urasawa
Naoki Urasawa Japanese Manga Born 1960
#6,676
Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi Japanese Manga Born 1957
#7,176
EO
Eiichiro Oda Japanese Manga Born 1975
#7,560
Kisho Kurokawa
Kisho Kurokawa Japanese Architect 1934 – 2007
#9,552
HA
Hiromu Arakawa Japanese Manga Born 1973
#10,070
NT
Naoko Takeuchi Japanese Manga Born 1967
#10,915
Jiro Taniguchi
Jiro Taniguchi Japanese Manga 1947 – 2017
#11,596
TK
Tite Kubo Japanese Manga Born 1977
#11,847
KS
Kazuyo Sejima Japanese Architect Born 1956
#12,083
IM
Issey Miyake Japanese Designer Born 1938
#12,799
Hiro Mashima
Hiro Mashima Japanese Manga Born 1977
#13,966
AI
Arata Isozaki Japanese Architect Born 1931
#14,426
Sesshū Tōyō
Sesshū Tōyō Japanese Painting 1420 – 1506
#14,508
Shigeru Mizuki
Shigeru Mizuki Japanese Manga 1922 – 2015
#15,681
Hajime Isayama
Hajime Isayama Japanese Manga Born 1986
#15,880
Go Nagai
Go Nagai Japanese Manga Born 1945
#16,203
YT
Yoshihiro Togashi Japanese Manga Born 1966
#16,614
MA
Mitsuru Adachi Japanese Manga Born 1951
#17,428
Hishikawa Moronobu
Hishikawa Moronobu Japanese Painter 1618 – 1694
#17,827
SI
Shotaro Ishinomori Japanese Manga 1938 – 1998
#18,000
GA
Gosho Aoyama Japanese Manga Born 1963
#18,277
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma Japanese Architect Born 1954
#20,552
KH
Katsura Hoshino Japanese Manga Born 1980
#21,009
Inio Asano
Inio Asano Japanese Manga Born 1980
#21,060
Uemura Shōen
Uemura Shōen Japanese Painter 1875 – 1949
#22,495
MK
Masami Kurumada Japanese Manga Born 1953
#23,139
Takehiko Inoue
Takehiko Inoue Japanese Manga Born 1967
#24,225
Tsutomu Nihei
Tsutomu Nihei Japanese Manga Born 1971
#24,636
Kuroda Seiki
Kuroda Seiki Japanese Painter 1866 – 1924
#24,978
Masakazu Katsura
Masakazu Katsura Japanese Manga Born 1962
#25,542
Fujio Akatsuka
Fujio Akatsuka Japanese Manga 1935 – 2008
#26,980
KT
Kenzō Takada Japanese Designer 1939 – 2020
#27,225
Moto Hagio
Moto Hagio Japanese Manga Born 1949
#29,817
Tarō Okamoto
Tarō Okamoto Japanese Sculptor 1911 – 1996
#30,069
KA
Kiyohiko Azuma Japanese Manga Born 1968
#30,446
KN
Keiji Nakazawa Japanese Manga 1939 – 2012
#30,769
TH
Tsukasa Hojo Japanese Manga Born 1959
#31,062
OK
On Kawara Japanese Painter 1933 – 2014
#31,090
DM
Daidō Moriyama Japanese Photographer Born 1938
#31,454
Hasegawa Tōhaku
Hasegawa Tōhaku Japanese Painter 1539 – 1610
#33,879
Maruyama Ōkyo
Maruyama Ōkyo Japanese Painter 1733 – 1795
#34,843
Utagawa Toyokuni
Utagawa Toyokuni Japanese Painter 1769 – 1825
#37,625
Kia Asamiya
Kia Asamiya Japanese Manga Born 1963
#37,703

By the numbers

Inside Japan Artists & Designers

194 notable people in this slice of the dataset.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous japan artists & designers born in each.

Notable Births by Decade

Notable births among Japan Artists & Designers peaked in the 1960s with 26 people.

What Japan Artists & Designers Are Known For

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Manga are Japan Artists & Designers's biggest group — 43% of all notables (84).

Japan Artists & Designers over-index on manga — 770.1× the global rate.

  1. Manga84
  2. Painter43
  3. Artist17
  4. Photographer16
  5. Architect11
  6. Sculptor7
  7. Designer6
  8. Printmaker4
  1. Manga84770.1×
  2. Photographer1624.8×
  3. Designer623.9×
  4. Artist1713.8×
  5. Architect118.5×
  6. Painter438.1×
  7. Sculptor74.4×

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