# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kakunyo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:39:28.919Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kakunyo"
name: "Kakunyo"
slug: "kakunyo"
description: "Kakunyo was a key figure of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism active from the late Kamakura period through the Nanboku-chō period. He was the great-grandson of Shinran and served as the third Monshu of the influential Hongan-ji Temple in Kyoto. As head priest of the Ōtani Hongan-ji, he played a decisive role in transforming Shinran's mausoleum into a fully institutionalized Buddhist temple. He is thus regarded by modern scholars as the de facto founder of Hongan-ji as a true religious institution with a doctrinal orthodoxy and regular services."
tagline: "Japanese Jōdo Shinshū priest (1270–1351) and great-grandson of Shinran"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Tsuru_no_maru.png/330px-Tsuru_no_maru.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1271-02-16"
deathDate: "1351-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.79
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           5.050003999999999
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakunyo"
    title: "Kakunyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "کاکونیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakunyo"
    title: "Kakunyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%9A%E5%A6%82"
    title: "覚如"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakunyo"
    title: "Kakunyo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3192053"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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