# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kunio-yanagita
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:51:26.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kunio-yanagita"
name: "Kunio Yanagita"
slug: "kunio-yanagita"
description: "Kunio Yanagita  was a Japanese author, scholar, ethnographer, and folklorist. He began his career as a bureaucrat, but developed an interest in rural Japan and its folk traditions. This led to a change in his career. His pursuit of this led to his eventual establishment of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku, as an academic field in Japan. As a result, he is often considered to be the father of modern Japanese folklore studies."
tagline: "Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kunio_Yanagita.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: "1875-07-31"
deathDate: "1962-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.36
  momentum:             3.562134027325959
  historical:           17.287044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382104/"
    handle:    "nm1382104"
sources:
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    title: "柳田國男"
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    title: "كونيو ياناجيتا"
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    title: "কুনিও ইয়ানাগিতা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yanagita Kunio"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunio_Yanagita"
    title: "Kunio Yanagita"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "柳田國男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "야나기타 구니오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunio_Yanagita"
    title: "Kunio Yanagita"
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    title: "Янагита, Кунио"
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    title: "Kunio Yanagita"
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    title: "Янаґіта Куніо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E7%94%B0%E5%9B%BD%E7%94%B7"
    title: "柳田国男"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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