# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aoki-shinmon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:41.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aoki-shinmon"
name: "Aoki Shinmon"
slug: "aoki-shinmon"
description: "Shinmon Aoki  was a Japanese writer and poet. He was best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita."
tagline: "Japanese writer and poet (1937-2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-04-11"
deathDate: "2022-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             25
  historical:           8.509326666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E6%9C%A8%E6%96%B0%E9%96%80"
    title: "青木新門"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "شينمون أوكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmon_Aoki"
    title: "Shinmon Aoki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoki_Shinmon"
    title: "Aoki Shinmon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmon_Aoki"
    title: "Shinmon Aoki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E6%9C%A8%E6%96%B0%E9%96%80"
    title: "青木新門"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%98%A4%ED%82%A4_%EC%8B%A0%EB%AA%AC"
    title: "아오키 신몬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Аоки, Синмон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmon_Aoki"
    title: "Shinmon Aoki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2811937"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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