# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taigen-sessai
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:36:14.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taigen-sessai"
name: "Taigen Sessai"
slug: "taigen-sessai"
description: "Sessai Chōrō (雪斎長老) or Imagawa Sessai, also known as Taigen Sessai (太原雪斎), was a Japanese abbot and mountain ascetic (yamabushi). He was an uncle of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and served him as military advisor and as commander of Imagawa's forces, despite his lack of any formal battle training or experience."
tagline: "Japanese monk of the Sengoku period"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1496"
deathDate: "1557"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.704333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Taigen_Sofu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessai_Ch%C5%8Dr%C5%8D"
    title: "Sessai Chōrō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D9%86"
    title: "سسای تایگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessai_Ch%C5%8Dr%C5%8D"
    title: "Sessai Chōrō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E5%8E%9F%E9%9B%AA%E6%96%8E"
    title: "太原雪斎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EC%9D%B4%EA%B2%90_%EC%85%8B%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "다이겐 셋사이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E5%8E%9F%E9%9B%AA%E9%BD%8B"
    title: "太原雪齋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842029"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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