# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rakuten-kitazawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:07:50.285Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rakuten-kitazawa"
name: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
slug: "rakuten-kitazawa"
description: "Kitazawa Yasuji , known by his pen name Kitazawa Rakuten , was a Japanese manga and nihonga artist, who was the first professional cartoonist in Japan, and the first to use the term \"manga\" in its modern sense. He drew editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji to the early Shōwa era. He is considered by many historians to be the founding father of modern manga, and his work was an inspiration to many younger manga artists and animators."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1876-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rakuten_Kitazawa_%E5%8C%97%E6%BE%A4_%E4%BF%9D%E6%AC%A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1876-07-20"
deathDate: "1955-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.39212133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Китадзава, Ракутэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten"
    title: "Kitazawa Rakuten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Kitazawa"
    title: "Yasuji Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten"
    title: "Kitazawa Rakuten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten"
    title: "Kitazawa Rakuten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Kitazawa"
    title: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Kitazawa"
    title: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten"
    title: "Kitazawa Rakuten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Kitazawa"
    title: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%BE%A4%E6%A5%BD%E5%A4%A9"
    title: "北澤楽天"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitazawa_Rakuten"
    title: "Kitazawa Rakuten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Kitazawa"
    title: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten_Kitazawa"
    title: "Rakuten Kitazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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