# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toshiko-taira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:36:39.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toshiko-taira"
name: "Toshiko Taira"
slug: "toshiko-taira"
description: "Toshiko Taira  was a Japanese textile artist who was based in Okinawa. She created kijōka-bashōfu, a cloth made from the fibre of the Musa basjoo, otherwise known as the Japanese fibre banana plant. Taira became a designated Living National Treasure of Japan in 2000."
tagline: "Japanese dyer (1921-2022)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1921-02-14"
deathDate: "2022-09-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             3.835616438356164
  historical:           6.344241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5241355/"
    handle:    "nm5241355"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Taira"
    title: "Toshiko Taira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "توشيكو تايرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_Toshiko"
    title: "Taira Toshiko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Taira"
    title: "Toshiko Taira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Taira"
    title: "Toshiko Taira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E8%89%AF%E6%95%8F%E5%AD%90"
    title: "平良敏子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20638962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5280820"
    title: "Toshiko Taira"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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