# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sohachi-yamaoka
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:51:56.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sohachi-yamaoka"
name: "Sōhachi Yamaoka"
slug: "sohachi-yamaoka"
description: "Sōhachi Yamaoka  from Niigata was a Japanese author. He wrote a number of historical novels. Politician Kenji Yamaoka is an adopted son. In 1968, he won the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for his historical novel Tokugawa Ieyasu."
tagline: "Japanese novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yamaoka_Sohachi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-01-11"
deathDate: "1978-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.09
  momentum:             0.7191780821917809
  historical:           5.955730666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DA%86%DB%8C"
    title: "یامائوکا سوهاچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaoka_S%C5%8Dhachi"
    title: "Yamaoka Sōhachi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dhachi_Yamaoka"
    title: "Sōhachi Yamaoka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B2%A1%E8%8E%8A%E5%85%AB"
    title: "山岡莊八"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%B2%A1%E8%8D%98%E5%85%AB"
    title: "山岡荘八"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EC%98%A4%EC%B9%B4_%EC%86%8C%ED%95%98%EC%B9%98"
    title: "야마오카 소하치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8016967"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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