# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-s-matsura
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:09:47.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-s-matsura"
name: "Frank S. Matsura"
slug: "frank-s-matsura"
description: "Frank (Sakae) Matsura (1873–1913) was an early 20th-century Japanese photographer who travelled from Japan to America in 1901 where he lived until his early death. More than 1,800 of his frontier-era photographs and glass plate negatives have been preserved by the Okanogan County Historical Society and Washington State University."
tagline: "American photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matsura2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1873"
deathDate: "1913-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.607344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "فرانك اس. ماتسورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Matsura"
    title: "Frank S. Matsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Matsura"
    title: "Frank S. Matsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Matsura"
    title: "Frank S. Matsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%B5%A6%E6%A0%84_(%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "松浦栄 (写真家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5489354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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