# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eiko-yamazawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:10:54.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eiko-yamazawa"
name: "Eiko Yamazawa"
slug: "eiko-yamazawa"
description: "Eiko Yamazawa  was a renowned Japanese photographer. She is considered one of Japan's earliest women photographers and is among the few women photographers in Japan who were active both before and after World War II. First trained in Nihonga, she later studied photography in the U.S. under the mentorship of Consuelo Kanaga, and also exposed to the work of Kanaga's contemporaries such as Paul Strand and Edward Weston."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1899–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yamazawa_Eiko.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1899"
deathDate: "1995"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.01
  momentum:             16.32075471698113
  historical:           4.60432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ايكو يامازاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Jamazawa"
    title: "Eiko Jamazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Yamazawa"
    title: "Eiko Yamazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiko_Yamazawa"
    title: "Eiko Yamazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%B2%A2%E6%A0%84%E5%AD%90"
    title: "山沢栄子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5349268"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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