# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/doshin-so
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:07:58.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/doshin-so"
name: "Doshin So"
slug: "doshin-so"
description: "Doshin So , (1911–1980) was a Japanese soldier and martial artist. He is most known as the creator and founder of Shorinji Kempo and the doctrine Kongo Zen . Practitioners of Shorinji Kempo refer to him as Kaiso, Japanese for \"the founder\"."
tagline: "Japanese karateka"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sodoushin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1911-02-11"
deathDate: "1980-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.88
  momentum:             0.5491990846681923
  historical:           7.072108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doshin_So"
    title: "Doshin So"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "دوشين سو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doshin_So"
    title: "Doshin So"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doshin_So"
    title: "Doshin So"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dshin_S%C5%8D"
    title: "Dōshin Sō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%97%E9%81%93%E8%87%A3"
    title: "宗道臣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%8C_%EB%8F%84%EC%8B%A0"
    title: "소 도신"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Doshin"
    title: "So Doshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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