# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/honninbo-sansa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:30:20.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/honninbo-sansa"
name: "Honninbō Sansa"
slug: "honninbo-sansa"
description: "Hon'inbō Sansa was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō , one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period (1603–1867), and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan. He was a Buddhist priest of the Nichiren sect, and his original dharma name was Nikkai (日海)."
tagline: "Go player, founder of the prestigious Hon'inbō school"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sansa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1559"
deathDate: "1623-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.64626
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Honinbo_Sansa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon'inb%C5%8D_Sansa"
    title: "Hon'inbō Sansa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "هون‌اینبو سانسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon%E2%80%99inb%C5%8D_Sansa"
    title: "Hon’inbō Sansa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon'inb%C5%8D_Sansa"
    title: "Hon'inbō Sansa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon'inb%C5%8D_Sansa"
    title: "Hon'inbō Sansa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E5%9B%A0%E5%9D%8A%E7%AE%97%E7%A0%82"
    title: "本因坊算砂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_Hon%E2%80%99inb%C5%8D"
    title: "Sansa Hon’inbō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8A%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Хонъимбо Санса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon'inb%C3%B4_Sansa"
    title: "Hon'inbô Sansa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E5%9B%A0%E5%9D%8A%E7%AE%97%E7%A0%82"
    title: "本因坊算砂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2656780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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