# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kikunae-ikeda
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:24.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kikunae-ikeda"
name: "Kikunae Ikeda"
slug: "kikunae-ikeda"
description: "Kikunae Ikeda  was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami. It is one of the five basic tastes along with sweet, bitter, sour and salty."
tagline: "Japanese chemist (1864–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kikunae_Ikeda.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1864-10-08"
deathDate: "1936-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump