# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shibata-zeshin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:30:14.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shibata-zeshin"
name: "Shibata Zeshin"
slug: "shibata-zeshin"
description: "Shibata Zeshin  was a Japanese lacquer painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. He has been called \"Japan's greatest lacquerer\", but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex: In Japan, he is known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and also an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this complicated reputation in Japan, Zeshin has come to be well regarded and much studied among the art world of the West, in Britain and the United States in particular."
tagline: "Japanese painter and lacquerer (1807–1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Shibata_Zeshin_in_The_Far_East%2C_1897.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1807-03-15"
deathDate: "1891-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.293126666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Сібата Дзесін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibata_Zeshin"
    title: "Shibata Zeshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibata_Zeshin"
    title: "Shibata Zeshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%B2%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "شیباتا زشین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibata_Zeshin"
    title: "Shibata Zeshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B6%D5%A5%D5%B7%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%87%D5%AB%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1"
    title: "Զեշին Շիբաթա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibata_Zeshin"
    title: "Shibata Zeshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E7%94%B0%E6%98%AF%E7%9C%9F"
    title: "柴田是真"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeshin_Shibata"
    title: "Zeshin Shibata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2386947"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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