# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shigeru-mizuki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:53.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shigeru-mizuki"
name: "Shigeru Mizuki"
slug: "shigeru-mizuki"
description: "Shigeru Mura , best known by his pen name Shigeru Mizuki , was a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and folklorist. He is best known for popularizing and reviving interest in yōkai, supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore, especially through his most famous series GeGeGe no Kitarō."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist (1922-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shigeru_Mura_cropped_1_Shigeru_Mura_201011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-03-08"
deathDate: "2015-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.86004
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  250
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1493634/"
    handle:    "nm1493634"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.mizukipro.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "شيغيرو ميزوكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شيجيرو ميزوكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0igeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Šigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuki_%C5%9Cigeru"
    title: "Mizuki Ŝigeru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%96%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "שיגרו מיזוקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9C%A8%E3%81%97%E3%81%92%E3%82%8B"
    title: "水木しげる"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%A6%88%ED%82%A4_%EC%8B%9C%EA%B2%8C%EB%A3%A8"
    title: "미즈키 시게루"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuki"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Мидзуки, Сигэру"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuki_Shigeru"
    title: "Mizuki Shigeru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9C%A8%E8%8C%82"
    title: "水木茂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuki_Sigeru"
    title: "Mizuki Sigeru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9C%A8%E8%8C%82"
    title: "水木茂"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/73a353e5-c7c3-4f6a-9ca9-23b1e31dfa08"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669049"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1172453"
    title: "Shigeru Mizuki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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