Top 50 Painters in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest painters in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 104 painters tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Vincent van Gogh, El Greco and Takashi Murakami lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 720,326 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 68,350, and the largest, Vincent van Gogh, reaches around 259,438 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each painter, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Vincent van Gogh	259,438	1.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
2	El Greco	239,322	8.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
3	Takashi Murakami	221,566	7.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
4	Andy Warhol	208,049	1.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
5	Raphael	192,054	2.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
6	Keith Haring	157,974	2.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
7	Leonardo da Vinci	150,820	0.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
8	Yoshitomo Nara	144,689	13.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
9	Claude Monet	115,494	1.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
10	Frida Kahlo	96,269	0.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
11	Rembrandt	79,781	1.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
12	Henri Matisse	73,921	2.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
13	Michelangelo	73,673	0.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
14	Gustav Klimt	70,982	1.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
15	Pablo Picasso	62,793	0.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
16	Damien Hirst	62,733	2.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
17	Gerhard Richter	61,802	2.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
18	David Hockney	59,619	1.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
19	Roy Lichtenstein	57,156	2.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
20	Marcel Duchamp	56,344	5.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
21	Jackson Pollock	56,116	1.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
22	Paul Cézanne	51,268	5.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
23	Paul Klee	49,727	2.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
24	Jeff Koons	47,753	2.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
25	Cy Twombly	47,401	8.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
26	Salvador Dalí	47,385	1.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
27	Mark Rothko	45,132	2.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
28	Marc Chagall	43,413	2.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
29	Paul Gauguin	42,515	2.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
30	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	39,762	5.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
31	H. R. Giger	39,352	1.8%	Painter	Literature
32	Francis Bacon (artist)	33,914	5.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
33	Invader (artist)	32,825	5.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
34	Francis Bacon	32,731	1.3%	Painter	Politics & Society
35	Evel Knievel	31,384	1.1%	Painter	Movies & TV
36	Joan Miró	29,727	1.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
37	Jean Dubuffet	27,586	10.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
38	Hieronymus Bosch	27,214	1.0%	Painter	Politics & Society
39	Edgar Degas	27,104	2.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
40	Joseph Beuys	25,819	3.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
41	William Blake	24,719	1.9%	Painter	Literature
42	Edvard Munch	22,623	0.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
43	Piet Mondrian	21,916	1.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
44	Marc Ecko	20,321	2.8%	Painter	Fashion & Accessoires
45	Wassily Kandinsky	18,799	0.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
46	Barry McGee	18,494	21.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
47	Thomas Kinkade	18,165	1.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
48	James Jean	16,971	6.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
49	Zdzisław Beksiński	16,499	2.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
50	Philip Stein	16,389	12.4%	Painter	Politics & Society