# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minoru-kitani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:10:34.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minoru-kitani"
name: "Minoru Kitani"
slug: "minoru-kitani"
description: "Minoru Kitani  was one of the most celebrated professional Go players and teachers of the game of Go in the twentieth century in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese Go player (1909-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kitani_Minoru_1955.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1909-01-25"
deathDate: "1975-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.77304133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E8%B0%B7%E5%AE%9E"
    title: "木谷实"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitani_Minoru"
    title: "Kitani Minoru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Kitani"
    title: "Minoru Kitani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitani_Minoru"
    title: "Kitani Minoru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Kitani"
    title: "Minoru Kitani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Kitani"
    title: "Minoru Kitani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E8%B0%B7%E5%AF%A6"
    title: "木谷實"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%ED%83%80%EB%8B%88_%EB%AF%B8%EB%85%B8%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "기타니 미노루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Kitani"
    title: "Minoru Kitani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitani_Minoru"
    title: "Kitani Minoru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Китани, Минору"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitani_Minoru"
    title: "Kitani Minoru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E8%B0%B7%E5%AF%A6"
    title: "木谷實"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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