# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mimei-ogawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:50:11.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mimei-ogawa"
name: "Mimei Ogawa"
slug: "mimei-ogawa"
description: "Mimei Ogawa , also called Ogawa Bimei, was an author of short stories, children's stories, and fairy tales. Because he was one of the first authors to publish children's stories under his own name, Ogawa has been called Japan's Hans Christian Andersen, an appellation he shares with Kurushima Takehiko."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1882–1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mimei_Ogawa_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882-04-07"
deathDate: "1961-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.765918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogawa_Mimei"
    title: "Ogawa Mimei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimei_Ogawa"
    title: "Mimei Ogawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B8_%D0%9E%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0"
    title: "Мимеи Огава"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%9D%E6%9C%AA%E6%98%8E"
    title: "小川未明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimei_Ogawa"
    title: "Mimei Ogawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%9D%E6%9C%AA%E6%98%8E"
    title: "小川未明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q343215"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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