# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/watanabe-shotei
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:28:07.527Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/watanabe-shotei"
name: "Watanabe Shōtei"
slug: "watanabe-shotei"
description: "Watanabe Seitei , also known as Watanabe Shōtei, was a Japanese Nihonga painter who was one of the first Japanese painters to visit Europe, attending the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris and being awarded a medal. He blended Western realism with the delicate colours and washes of the Kikuchi Yōsai school, introducing a new approach to kachōga ."
tagline: "Japanese painter (1852-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Watanabe_Seitei.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1852-01-18"
deathDate: "1918-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.12
  momentum:             0.1228878648233487
  historical:           5.023724
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watanabe_Sh%C5%8Dtei"
    title: "Watanabe Shōtei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watanabe_Seitei"
    title: "Watanabe Seitei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A1%E8%BE%BA%E7%9C%81%E4%BA%AD"
    title: "渡辺省亭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8D_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Ватанабэ Сэйтей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5_%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Ватанабе Сьотей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566605"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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