# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sazanami-iwaya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:44:21.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sazanami-iwaya"
name: "Sazanami Iwaya"
slug: "sazanami-iwaya"
description: "Sazanami Iwaya  was a Japanese writer, children's author, oral storyteller, German literature scholar, journalist and haiku poet from the Meiji and Taishō eras. His birthname was Sueo Iwaya . Pseudonyms include Sazanami Sanjin (漣山人), Rakutenkyo (楽天居) and Ōe Sazanami (大江小波)."
tagline: "Japanese novelist, poet and folklorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%B7%96%E8%B0%B7_%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%A2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1870-06-06"
deathDate: "1933-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.260912
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/90d836e1-458b-4da2-980e-36be8570fa94"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwaya_Sazanami"
    title: "Iwaya Sazanami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazanami_Iwaya"
    title: "Sazanami Iwaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazanami_Iwaya"
    title: "Sazanami Iwaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%96%E8%B0%B7%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%A2"
    title: "巖谷小波"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%99%80%EC%95%BC_%EC%82%AC%EC%9E%90%EB%82%98%EB%AF%B8"
    title: "이와야 사자나미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F"
    title: "Садзанами Ивая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%96%E8%B0%B7%E5%B0%8F%E6%B3%A2"
    title: "巖谷小波"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19366455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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