# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuragawa-hoshu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:29:24.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuragawa-hoshu"
name: "Katsuragawa Hoshū"
slug: "katsuragawa-hoshu"
description: "Katsuragawa Hoshū  was a Japanese physician and scholar of rangaku. He served the Tokugawa shogunate as a physician and as a translator of Dutch. He was the older brother of author and rangaku scholar Morishima Chūryō."
tagline: "Japanese physician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1751"
deathDate: "1809-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.430492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D2%91%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8E"
    title: "Кацураґава Хосю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "كاتسوراجاوا هوشو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuragawa_Hosh%C5%AB"
    title: "Katsuragawa Hoshū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuragawa_Hosh%C5%AB"
    title: "Katsuragawa Hoshū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuragawa_Hosh%C5%AB"
    title: "Katsuragawa Hoshū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%AB%E5%91%A8"
    title: "桂川甫周"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosh%C5%AB_Katsuragawa"
    title: "Hoshū Katsuragawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8E"
    title: "Кацурагава Хосю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q946932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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