# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiho-sakanishi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:04:24.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiho-sakanishi"
name: "Shiho Sakanishi"
slug: "shiho-sakanishi"
description: "Shiho Sakanishi was a Japanese critic, essayist, academic, translator, author, and librarian. She was the first Japanese citizen to serve as a librarian at the Library of Congress and was a notable critic of the role of women in Japanese society."
tagline: "Japanese scholar, critic (1896-1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sakanishi_Shiho_1936-5.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1896-12-06"
deathDate: "1976-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             9.580774681152572
  historical:           4.144673333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakanishi_Shio"
    title: "Sakanishi Shio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiho_Sakanishi"
    title: "Shiho Sakanishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiho_Sakanishi"
    title: "Shiho Sakanishi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E8%A5%BF%E5%BF%97%E4%BF%9D"
    title: "坂西志保"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11425563"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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