# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nishikawa-joken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:05:36.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nishikawa-joken"
name: "Nishikawa Joken"
slug: "nishikawa-joken"
description: "Nishikawa Joken  was an Edo period Japanese geographer and astronomer, and author of the encyclopaedic text Ka'i tsūshō kō. He played a role in popularizing early modern European astronomy in Japan through works such as Tenmon Giron."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1648"
deathDate: "1724"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.72
  momentum:             0.2506963788300836
  historical:           5.679914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_Joken"
    title: "Nishikawa Joken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%9Fikava_Coken"
    title: "Nişikava Coken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_Joken"
    title: "Nishikawa Joken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D1%88%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Нішікава Джьокен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_Joken"
    title: "Nishikawa Joken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E5%A6%82%E8%A6%8B"
    title: "西川如見"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2753679"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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