# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nanjo-bunyu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:53:54.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nanjo-bunyu"
name: "Nanjo Bunyu"
slug: "nanjo-bunyu"
description: "Nanjō Bun'yū (南条文雄) was a Buddhist priest and one of the most important modern Japanese scholars of Buddhism. Nanjō was born to the abbot of Seiunji Temple (誓運寺), part of the Shinshu Ōtani sect (真宗大谷派) of the Higashi Hongan-ji (東本願寺) branch of Jōdo Shinshū."
tagline: "Japanese academic (1849–1927)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nanj%C5%8D_Bun'y%C5%AB_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-07-01"
deathDate: "1927-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.081174666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E6%9D%A1%E6%96%87%E9%9B%84"
    title: "南条文雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "نانچو بونيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanj%C5%8D_Bun%E2%80%99y%C5%AB"
    title: "Nanjō Bun’yū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanj%C5%8D_Bun'y%C5%AB"
    title: "Nanjō Bun'yū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanj%C5%8D_Buny%C5%AB"
    title: "Nanjō Bunyū"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E6%9D%A1%E6%96%87%E9%9B%84"
    title: "南条文雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%9C%EC%A1%B0_%EB%B6%84%EC%9C%A0"
    title: "난조 분유"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjo_Bunyu"
    title: "Nanjo Bunyu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%91_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8A%D1%8E"
    title: "Нандзё Бунъю"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1186145"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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