# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oten-shimokawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:44:07.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oten-shimokawa"
name: "Ōten Shimokawa"
slug: "oten-shimokawa"
description: "Ōten Shimokawa   was a Japanese artist, considered to be one of the founding artists and pioneers of anime. Little is known of his early personal life, other than that his family moved to the Tokyo area when he was nine years old. Here he began working for Tokyo Puck magazine as a political cartoonist and manga series artist."
tagline: "Japanese animator (1892–1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1892-05-02"
deathDate: "1973-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.68
  momentum:             2.195121951219512
  historical:           14.031392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802346/"
    handle:    "nm1802346"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%87%B9%E5%A4%A9"
    title: "下川凹天"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "اوتين شيموكاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimokawa_%C5%8Cten"
    title: "Shimokawa Ōten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%86%D8%AA%DB%8E%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%86%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ئۆتێن شیمۆکاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93ten_%C5%A0imokawa"
    title: "Óten Šimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimokawa_Oten"
    title: "Shimokawa Oten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Ōten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Ōten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "اوتن شیموکاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Ōten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Ōten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Oten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%87%B9%E5%A4%A9"
    title: "下川凹天"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%AA%A8%EC%B9%B4%EC%99%80_%EC%98%A4%ED%85%90"
    title: "시모카와 오텐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Ōten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oten_Shimokawa"
    title: "Oten Shimokawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1150879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1572888"
    title: "Oten Shimokawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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