# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shotaro-ikenami
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:50.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shotaro-ikenami"
name: "Shōtarō Ikenami"
slug: "shotaro-ikenami"
description: "Shōtarō Ikenami  was a Japanese author. He wrote a number of historical novels. He won the Naoki Award for popular literature in 1960. Many of his historical novels were adapted for TV and cinema."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1923–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ikenami_Shotaro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-01-25"
deathDate: "1990-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.371802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0407501/"
    handle:    "nm0407501"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E6%B3%A2%E6%AD%A3%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "池波正太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "شوتارو ايكينامى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikenami_Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D"
    title: "Ikenami Shōtarō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Ikenami"
    title: "Shōtarō Ikenami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "شوتارو ایکه‌نامی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Ikenami"
    title: "Shōtarō Ikenami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D_Ikenami"
    title: "Shōtarō Ikenami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E6%B3%A2%E6%AD%A3%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E"
    title: "池波正太郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2392807"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/228526"
    title: "Shotaro Ikenami"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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