# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shimaki-kensaku
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:48:55.587Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shimaki-kensaku"
name: "Shimaki Kensaku"
slug: "shimaki-kensaku"
description: "Kensaku Shimaki  was the pen name of Asakura Kikuo , a Japanese author active during the Shōwa period in Japan. He had an interest in leftist ideology and was arrested in 1928 due to his ties to the Japanese Communist Party. Throughout his literary career, Shimaki wrote multiple novels and stories with a common theme being proletariat life. Some of his works were published by magazines and journals. He associated with Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1903–1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shimaki_Kensaku.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1903-09-07"
deathDate: "1945-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.68
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.151045333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimaki_Kensaku"
    title: "Shimaki Kensaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensaku_Shimaki"
    title: "Kensaku Shimaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimaki_Kensaku"
    title: "Shimaki Kensaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B6%E6%9C%A8%E5%81%A5%E4%BD%9C"
    title: "島木健作"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2278889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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