# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kishi-ganku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:52.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kishi-ganku"
name: "Kishi Ganku"
slug: "kishi-ganku"
description: "Ganku 岸駒, or more formally Kishi Ku, was a leading Japanese painter of Kyoto and founder of the Kishi school of painting. He is famous for his paintings of tigers.\nGanku was born in Kanazawa as Kishi Saeki, studied painting styles including those of Chinese painter Shen Nanpin (沈南蘋) and the Maruyama-Shijō school, and arrived in Kyoto around 1780."
tagline: "Japanese artist (1749-1839)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%B2%B8%E9%A7%92_%E8%BF%91%E4%B8%96%E5%90%8D%E5%AE%B6%E8%82%96%E5%83%8F.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1749"
deathDate: "1839-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.27
  momentum:             10.6578947368421
  historical:           6.348057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganku"
    title: "Ganku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "كيشى جانكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanku"
    title: "Qanku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganku"
    title: "Ganku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishi_Ganku"
    title: "Kishi Ganku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganku"
    title: "Ganku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E9%A7%92"
    title: "岸駒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555061"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump