# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otomo-yoshinao
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:20:46.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otomo-yoshinao"
name: "Ōtomo Yoshinao"
slug: "otomo-yoshinao"
description: "Ōtomo Yoshinao was a Japanese samurai lord and gokenin of the early Kamakura period. He was a close retainer of shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo, even called his \"matchless favorite\", and served as Governor of Buzen and Bungo Provinces, Defense Commissioner of the West and Lieutenant of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards under the Kamakura shogunate. He was the founder of the Ōtomo clan. He held the court rank of Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade."
tagline: "Samurai"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/%C5%8Ctomo_Yoshinao.jpg/330px-%C5%8Ctomo_Yoshinao.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1172-01-29"
deathDate: "1223-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             3.823218066337333
  historical:           3.313394666666667
  currentAttention:     13.76146788990826
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctomo_Yoshinao"
    title: "Ōtomo Yoshinao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ctomo_Yoshinao"
    title: "Ōtomo Yoshinao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%8F%8B%E8%83%BD%E7%9B%B4"
    title: "大友能直"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11433255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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