# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ito-umeko
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:54:55.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ito-umeko"
name: "Itō Umeko"
slug: "ito-umeko"
description: "Itō Umeko was a geisha and poet of the late Edo and Taishō periods in Japan and later the second wife of Itō Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan, whom she married in 1866. In the 1880s, she learned English to prepare for foreign affairs, presided over the \"Improvement Society\" for upper-class women in Tokyo to study Western culture, and participated in diplomatic etiquette practices at the Rokumeikan."
tagline: "Geisha, later wife of Itō Hirobumi (1848–1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Umeko_Ito.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1848-12-03"
deathDate: "1924-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.13
  momentum:             3.836317135549872
  historical:           4.197125333333333
  currentAttention:     21.31287297527707
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Umeko"
    title: "Itō Umeko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E6%A2%85%E5%AD%90"
    title: "伊藤梅子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%86%A0_%EC%9A%B0%EB%A9%94%EC%BD%94"
    title: "이토 우메코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%A3%D0%BC%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Ито Умэко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4205319"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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