# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masaharu-anesaki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:06:43.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masaharu-anesaki"
name: "Masaharu Anesaki"
slug: "masaharu-anesaki"
description: "Masaharu Anesaki , also known under his pen name \"Chōfū Anesaki\" , was a leading Japanese intellectual and scholar of the Meiji period. Anesaki is credited as being the father of religious studies in Japan, but also wrote on a variety of subjects including culture, literature, and politics. He was also a member of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations."
tagline: "Japanese scholar of religion, critic (1873–1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anesaki_Masaharu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1873-07-25"
deathDate: "1949-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.62
  momentum:             1.618868670886076
  historical:           7.62502
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%8D%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Анэсаки, Масахару"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesaki_Masaharu"
    title: "Anesaki Masaharu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Anesaki"
    title: "Masaharu Anesaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "ماساهارو آنساکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Anesaki"
    title: "Masaharu Anesaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Anesaki"
    title: "Masaharu Anesaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%89%E5%B4%8E%E6%AD%A3%E6%B2%BB"
    title: "姉崎正治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Anesaki"
    title: "Masaharu Anesaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3850648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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