# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-frois
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:58.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-frois"
name: "Luís Fróis"
slug: "luis-frois"
description: "Luís Fróis was a Portuguese Catholic priest and missionary who worked in Asia, most notably Japan, during the second half of the 16th century. As a Jesuit, he preached in Japan during the Sengoku period, meeting with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He is famous for writing The First European Description of Japan and History of Japan."
tagline: "Portuguese missionary (1532–1597)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jesuit_with_Japanese_nobleman_circa_1600.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1532"
deathDate: "1597-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.95
  momentum:             0.6065148556227948
  historical:           17.126664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "路易斯·弗罗伊斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Luís Fróis"
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    title: "Luís Fróis"
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    title: "Luís Fróis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Luís Fróis"
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    title: "Luís Fróis"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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