# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kumazawa-banzan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:40:34.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kumazawa-banzan"
name: "Kumazawa Banzan"
slug: "kumazawa-banzan"
description: "Kumazawa Banzan  was a Japanese Confucian. He learned Yangmingism from Nakae Tōju and served Ikeda Mitsumasa, the lord of Bizen Province. In his later years, he was imprisoned for writing Daigaku Wakumon, which contained criticism of Tokugawa shogunate politics."
tagline: "Japanese philosopher (1619–1691)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kumazawa_Banzan_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1619"
deathDate: "1691-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.204397333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E6%B3%BD%E8%95%83%E5%B1%B1"
    title: "熊泽蕃山"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumazawa_Banzan"
    title: "Kumazawa Banzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumazawa_Banzan"
    title: "Kumazawa Banzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumazawa_Banzan"
    title: "Kumazawa Banzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کومازاوا بانزان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumazawa_Banzan"
    title: "Kumazawa Banzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E6%B2%A2%E8%95%83%E5%B1%B1"
    title: "熊沢蕃山"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EB%A7%88%EC%9E%90%EC%99%80_%EB%B0%98%EC%9E%94"
    title: "구마자와 반잔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzan_Kumazawa"
    title: "Banzan Kumazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumazava_Banzan"
    title: "Kumazava Banzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037304"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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