# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanpei-shirato
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:59:16.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanpei-shirato"
name: "Sanpei Shirato"
slug: "sanpei-shirato"
description: "Noboru Okamoto , known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato , was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of the controversial gekiga genre of adult-oriented manga."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1932-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1932-02-15"
deathDate: "2021-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.25833066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "白土三平"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampei_Shirato"
    title: "Sampei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%BE%DB%8C_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "سانپی شیراتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E5%9C%9F%E4%B8%89%E5%B9%B3"
    title: "白土三平"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%9D%BC%ED%86%A0_%EC%82%B0%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "시라토 산페이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
    title: "Sanpei Shirato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Сампэй Сирато"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpei_Shirato"
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  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirato_Sanpei"
    title: "Shirato Sanpei"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1358489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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