# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kawai-kanjiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:21.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kawai-kanjiro"
name: "Kawai Kanjirō"
slug: "kawai-kanjiro"
description: "Kawai Kanjirō  was a Japanese potter and a key figure in mingei and studio pottery movements, which included Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada, Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shikō Munakata, Keisuke Serizawa, and Tatsuzō Shimaoka, among others."
tagline: "Japanese ceramicist, essayist (1890-1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D_photographed_by_Shigeru_Tamura.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1890-08-24"
deathDate: "1966-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0.693173821252639
  historical:           7.109404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E4%BA%95%E5%AF%AC%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kawai Kanjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kawai Kanjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kawai Kanjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kawai Kanjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanjir%C5%8D_Kawai"
    title: "Kanjirō Kawai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E4%BA%95%E5%AF%9B%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E"
    title: "河井寛次郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Kanjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kawai Kanjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6379524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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