# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eiji-yoshikawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:30:42.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eiji-yoshikawa"
name: "Eiji Yoshikawa"
slug: "eiji-yoshikawa"
description: "Eiji Yoshikawa  was a Japanese historical novelist, best known for his revisions of classics and retelling of historical events through the lens of semi-biographical fiction books."
tagline: "Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eiji_Yoshikawa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-08-11"
deathDate: "1962-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.45774
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0948982"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump