# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyota-sugimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:09:42.225Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyota-sugimoto"
name: "Kyota Sugimoto"
slug: "kyota-sugimoto"
description: "Kyota Sugimoto  was a Japanese inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter. He received the Blue Ribbon Award and the Small Asahi Ribbon. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Sugimoto's typewriter used 2,400 of them."
tagline: "Japanese inventor (1882-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sugimoto_Kyota.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: "1882-09-20"
deathDate: "1972-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.36
  momentum:             0.1262626262626263
  historical:           6.547769333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%9C%AC%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "杉本京太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyota_Sugimoto"
    title: "Kyota Sugimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%95%D7%98%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95"
    title: "קיוטה סוגימוטו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%9C%AC%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "杉本京太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%EA%B8%B0%EB%AA%A8%ED%86%A0_%EA%B5%90%ED%83%80"
    title: "스기모토 교타"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D1%91%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Сугимото, Кёта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyota_Sugimoto"
    title: "Kyota Sugimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1134656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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