# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karai-senryu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:24.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karai-senryu"
name: "Karai Senryū"
slug: "karai-senryu"
description: "Karai Senryū , whose real name is Karai Hachiemon was a Japanese poet and poetry judge (tenja). He popularized a form of poetry similar to haiku called senryū, which is named after him. \"Senryū\" was the nickname that he adopted when he started judging poetry, and other poetry judges after him also adopted this name. The word senryū means \"river willow\" in Japanese."
tagline: "Japanese poet and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karai_Senryu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1718"
deathDate: "1790-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.748201333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%8E"
    title: "Караї Сенрю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "كاراى سينريو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Senry%C5%AB"
    title: "Karai Senryū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Senry%C5%AB"
    title: "Karai Senryū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Senry%C5%AB"
    title: "Karai Senryū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Senry%C5%AB"
    title: "Karai Senryū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Szenrj%C3%BA"
    title: "Karai Szenrjú"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Senry%C5%AB"
    title: "Karai Senryū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%84%E4%BA%95%E5%B7%9D%E6%9F%B3"
    title: "柄井川柳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karai_Hachiemon"
    title: "Karai Hachiemon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q536561"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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