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Top 70 Art movements in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 70 largest art movements in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Illustration, Contemporary art and Modern art lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 66M people. Across all 70 entries the average audience size is 2.6M, and the largest, Illustration, reaches around 23M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each art movement, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 70, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Installation art 617k 43.0 59.3% Art movement
27 Impressionism 582k 38.9 73.4% Art movement
28 Pixel art 472k 26.1 80.5% Art movement
29 Surrealism 439k 35.9 64.8% Art movement
30 Spray painting 359k 38.0 39.3% Art movement
31 African art 290k 33.5 51.8% Art movement
32 Public art 269k 40.7 50.8% Art movement
33 Gothic art 216k 31.3 76.9% Art movement
34 Psychedelic art 200k 32.1 56.0% Art movement
35 Postmodernism 199k 33.6 67.0% Art movement
36 Cubism 199k 43.0 50.0% Art movement
37 Glass art 191k 32.3 63.3% Art movement
38 Skull art 190k 31.1 56.8% Art movement
39 Celtic mythology 187k 33.8 32.2% Art movement
40 Chinese art 174k 37.6 46.6% Art movement
41 Asian art 166k 27.3 50.7% Art movement
42 Cover art 147k 31.2 51.0% Art movement
43 Humanism 138k 37.3 57.0% Art movement
44 Byzantine art 118k 38.2 68.2% Art movement
45 Art Nouveau 105k 38.3 60.5% Art movement
46 Medieval art 91k 26.2 23.4% Art movement
47 Existentialism 88k 41.0 55.7% Art movement
48 Visionary art 65k 32.3 56.7% Art movement
49 Expressionism 64k 31.4 66.8% Art movement
50 Naturism 55k 34.9 44.5% Art movement

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 70 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each art movement by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest art movement in Japan?

Illustration currently leads with an estimated audience of 23M people in Japan.

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