# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroko-takenishi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:39:18.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroko-takenishi"
name: "Hiroko Takenishi"
slug: "hiroko-takenishi"
description: "Hiroko Takenishi  is a Japanese fiction writer and literary critic. Takenishi is best known for her semi-autobiographical short story \"The Rite\" (1963), which tells of her experience surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. In 2012 she was named a Person of Cultural Merit for her writing."
tagline: "Japanese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Takeni_Shihiroko.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             0.1217391304347826
  historical:           10.28761866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Такэниси, Хироко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takenishi_Hiroko"
    title: "Takenishi Hiroko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%B9%E8%A5%BF%E5%AF%9B%E5%AD%90"
    title: "竹西寛子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Takenishi"
    title: "Hiroko Takenishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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