# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuji-matsumoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:46:30.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuji-matsumoto"
name: "Katsuji Matsumoto"
slug: "katsuji-matsumoto"
description: "Katsuji Matsumoto  was a Japanese illustrator and shōjo manga artist. Matsumoto's 16-page The Mysterious Clover (1934) is recognized as a pioneering work in the field of manga, but he is best known for his shōjo manga Kurukuru Kurumi-chan, serialized from 1938 to 1940, and again from 1949 to 1954."
tagline: "Illustrator, manga artist (1904–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matsumoto_Katsuji.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1904-07-25"
deathDate: "1986-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.76
  momentum:             13.10924369747899
  historical:           5.020952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://katsudi.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "كاتسوغي ماتسوموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuji_Matsumoto"
    title: "Katsuji Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuji_Matsumoto"
    title: "Katsuji Matsumoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%8B%E3%81%A4%E3%81%A2"
    title: "松本かつぢ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%B8%A0%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EC%B9%B4%EC%B8%A0%EC%A7%80"
    title: "마츠모토 카츠지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5353506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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