# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaoru-kurimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:19:57.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaoru-kurimoto"
name: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
slug: "kaoru-kurimoto"
description: "Kaoru Kurimoto  was the pen name of Sumiyo Imaoka , a Japanese novelist. Imaoka also used the pen name Azusa Nakajima  to write criticism and music. She was known for her record-breaking 130-volume Guin Saga series, which has been translated into English, German, French, Italian and Russian. Her style has been described as being part of the New Wave science fiction movement. Outside of her literary endeavors, she was a playwright, composer, and pianist who performed with her own jazz ensemble, the Azusa Nakajima Trio."
tagline: "Japanese novelist (1953–2009)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-02-13"
deathDate: "2009-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.69865066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1178740/"
    handle:    "nm1178740"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://homepage2.nifty.com/kaguraclub/index.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3397399"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"
    title: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"
    title: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"
    title: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"
    title: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Kurimoto"
    title: "Kaoru Kurimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%97%E6%9C%AC%E8%96%AB"
    title: "栗本薫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EB%A6%AC%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EA%B0%80%EC%98%A4%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "구리모토 가오루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Каору Куримото"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Курімото Каору"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%97%E6%9C%AC%E8%96%B0"
    title: "栗本薰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/03a07ef4-7438-4632-8746-d3150e8aa2d8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1942999"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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