# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masako-katsura
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:45:28.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masako-katsura"
name: "Masako Katsura"
slug: "masako-katsura"
description: "Masako Katsura , nicknamed \"Katsy\" and sometimes called the \"First Lady of Billiards\", was a Japanese carom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. She was the first woman to compete and place among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese champion Kinrey Matsuyama, Katsura became Japan's only female professional player. In competition in Japan, she took second place in the country's national three-cushion billiards championship three times. In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straight rail."
tagline: "Japanese carom billiards player (1913–1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Masako_Katsura%E2%80%941954_Buenos_Aires.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1913"
deathDate: "1995"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.06
  momentum:             0.2513966480446927
  historical:           12.213212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "가쓰라 마사코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماساكو كاتسورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ماساکو کاتسورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Katsura"
    title: "Masako Katsura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B5%E5%AD%90"
    title: "桂マサ子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "가츠라 마사코"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Масако Кацура"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E6%AD%A3%E5%AD%90"
    title: "桂正子"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297154"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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