Trending Painters in Japan — September 2026
The 99 most-viewed painters on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Seiji Tōgō. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,360,879
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Seiji Tōgō
Japanese artist (1897-1978)
61,176
views
views
2
Takeshi Kitano
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)
55,321
views
views
3
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
54,582
views
views
4
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945)
44,521
views
views
5
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
40,711
views
views
6
Charles III
King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
34,751
views
views
7
Kaoru Mitsumune
Japanese painter, model
30,223
views
views
8
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch painter (1632–1675)
27,216
views
views
9
Yūzō Kayama
Japanese pop singer, songwriter, actor
26,646
views
views
10
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
26,554
views
views
11
Billy Zane
American actor (born 1966)
26,377
views
views
12
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
24,869
views
views
13
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
24,474
views
views
14
John Leguizamo
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)
23,101
views
views
15
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
22,427
views
views
16
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
22,144
views
views
17
Rui Yoshida
21,572
views
views
18
Gloria Stuart
American actress (1910–2010)
21,528
views
views
19
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
21,495
views
views
20
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
21,404
views
views
21
Satoshi Ohno
Japanese idol, singer, actor
20,681
views
views
22
Paul McCartney
English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)
18,932
views
views
23
Rosanjin
Japanese artist (1883–1959)
18,466
views
views
24
Maho Toyota
Japanese actress and model
18,353
views
views
25
Eiji Okuda
Japanese actor and film director
15,736
views
views
26
Atsumu Yamamoto
Japanese painter (1940-2011)
15,492
views
views
27
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
15,425
views
views
28
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese artist (1760-1849)
15,357
views
views
29
Aki Yashiro
Japanese enka singer and painter
15,211
views
views
30
Sylvester Stallone
American actor and filmmaker (born 1946)
15,106
views
views
31
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor (born 1937)
14,633
views
views
32
Tsurutarō Kataoka
Japanese actor
14,279
views
views
33
David Bowie
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
14,152
views
views
34
Tsuguharu Foujita
French painter (1886-1968)
12,971
views
views
35
Matsuo Bashō
Japanese poet（1644–1694）
12,761
views
views
36
Shinsuke Tsutsui
Japanese painter (1968-2020)
12,043
views
views
37
Claude Monet
French painter (1840–1926)
11,742
views
views
38
Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinese empress (1835–1908)
11,606
views
views
39
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
11,475
views
views
40
Mari Yamazaki
Japanese manga artist (1967-)
11,412
views
views
41
Konoe Nobutada
Japanese calligrapher (1565-1614)
11,187
views
views
42
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
10,696
views
views
43
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
10,359
views
views
44
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
10,274
views
views
45
Kiyoshi Yamashita
Japanese artist (1922-1971)
9,838
views
views
46
Tamami Tōgō
Japanese painter and singer
9,727
views
views
47
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
9,456
views
views
48
John Wayne Gacy
American serial killer (1942–1994)
9,445
views
views
49
Princess Tenko
Japanese female magician
9,399
views
views
50
Rembrandt
Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
9,294
views
views
51
Jimmy Onishi
Japanese comedian
9,147
views
views
52
Tarō Okamoto
Japanese artist (1911–1996)
9,078
views
views
53
Nobuhiro Ishihara
Japanese painter
8,970
views
views
54
Ringo Starr
British musician, drummer for the Beatles (born 1940)
8,930
views
views
55
Jim Carrey
Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
8,900
views
views
56
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
8,697
views
views
57
Tokugawa Nariaki
Japanese daimyo (1800-1860)
8,619
views
views
58
David Hockney
painter, printmaker, set designer, photographer (1937–2026)
8,501
views
views
59
Harumichi Shibasaki
Japanese watercolor painter
8,219
views
views
60
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
7,916
views
views
61
Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist (1904–1989)
7,879
views
views
62
Minami
Japanese actress (1986-)
7,825
views
views
63
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
7,584
views
views
64
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
Japanese artist (1885-1976)
7,523
views
views
65
Yuki Ninagawa
Japanese actress
7,437
views
views
66
Banksy
English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
7,422
views
views
67
Utagawa Hiroshige
Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)
7,418
views
views
68
Yumeji Takehisa
Japanese artist (1884-1934)
7,342
views
views
69
Haruman Shimizu
7,293
views
views
70
Yoshitomo Nara
Japanese artist (1959- )
7,184
views
views
71
Yoshitaka Amano
Japanese painter, character designer, illustrator, book designer
7,171
views
views
72
Hansō Sōshitsu
tea master from Japan (1923–2025)
7,079
views
views
73
Takashi Murakami
Japanese contemporary artist, film director (born 1962)
7,072
views
views
74
Sesshū Tōyō
Japanese artist (1420-1506)
6,782
views
views
75
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
6,760
views
views
76
Sharaku
Japanese artist (fl. 1794–1795)
6,455
views
views
77
Mitsuo Sagawa
Japanese singer, actor, talent (1939-2024)
6,403
views
views
78
Izumi Yukimura
Japanese singer, actress, painter (1937-)
6,346
views
views
79
Esper Ito
Japanese comedian (1960–2024)
6,250
views
views
80
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
6,190
views
views
81
Tadanori Yokoo
Japanese artist and graphic designer (1936-)
5,919
views
views
82
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
5,917
views
views
83
Isamu Noguchi
Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)
5,875
views
views
84
Mariko Asabuki
Japanese novelist (1984-)
5,859
views
views
85
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
5,754
views
views
86
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
5,735
views
views
87
Yi Bangja
Japanese-Korean princess
5,719
views
views
88
Mokichi Okada
Founder of the Church of World Messianity (1882-1955)
5,640
views
views
89
Kanō Eitoku
Japanese artist (1543-1590)
5,597
views
views
90
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1798–1861)
5,589
views
views
91
Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875–1947)
5,564
views
views
92
Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571–1610)
5,484
views
views
93
Itō Jakuchū
Japanese artist (1716-1800)
5,452
views
views
94
Yugo Kanno
Japanese composer and musician (born 1977)
5,433
views
views
95
Cai Guo-Qiang
Chinese installation artist (born 1957)
5,424
views
views
96
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
5,409
views
views
97
Lucy Liu
American actress (born 1968)
5,276
views
views
98
Paul Gauguin
French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)
5,150
views
views
99
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
5,091
views
views
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