# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hirase-sakugoro
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:04.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hirase-sakugoro"
name: "Hirase Sakugorō"
slug: "hirase-sakugoro"
description: "Hirase Sakugorō  was a Japanese botanist and painter. Born into a samurai family in Fukui, Hirase discovered the spermatozoids of the ginkgo in January 1894, before Seiichiro Ikeno discovered the spermatozoids of the cycad. He is a laureate of the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1912)."
tagline: "Botanist (1856-1925)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sakugoro_Hirase.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1856-02-12"
deathDate: "1925-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.88
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           6.541433333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8D_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Хирасэ Сакугоро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirase_Sakugor%C5%8D"
    title: "Hirase Sakugorō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirase_Sakugor%C5%8D"
    title: "Hirase Sakugorō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirase_Sakugor%C5%8D"
    title: "Hirase Sakugorō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirase_Sakugor%C5%8D"
    title: "Hirase Sakugorō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirase_Sakugor%C5%8D"
    title: "Hirase Sakugorō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E7%80%AC%E4%BD%9C%E4%BA%94%E9%83%8E"
    title: "平瀬作五郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6620051"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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