# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/koto-bunjiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:15:24.097Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/koto-bunjiro"
name: "Kotō Bunjirō"
slug: "koto-bunjiro"
description: "Bunjirō Kotō was a Japanese earth scientist (Geologist). He is from Iwami Province. Kotō is from Tokyo Imperial University, and after graduating, he became a professor at Tokyo Imperial University. He is known for taking photographs of the Neodani Fault when he investigated the 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake."
tagline: "Japanese geologist (1856–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bunjiro_Koto%2C_Professor_of_Geology%2C_Palaeontology_%26_Mineralogy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1856-04-08"
deathDate: "1935-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             0.7486631016042781
  historical:           5.881138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kot%C5%8D_Bunjir%C5%8D"
    title: "Kotō Bunjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjiro_Koto"
    title: "Bunjiro Koto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjir%C5%8D_Kot%C5%8D"
    title: "Bunjirō Kotō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E8%97%A4%E6%96%87%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E"
    title: "小藤文次郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E8%97%A4%E6%96%87%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E"
    title: "小藤文次郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%A0%ED%86%A0_%EB%B6%84%EC%A7%80%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "고토 분지로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q861591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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