# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toson-shimazaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:07.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toson-shimazaki"
name: "Tōson Shimazaki"
slug: "toson-shimazaki"
description: "Tōson Shimazaki  was the pen-name of Haruki Shimazaki, a Japanese writer active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He began his career as a Romantic poet, but went on to establish himself as a major proponent of Japanese Naturalism. The historical novel Before the Dawn (1929–1935), about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, is his most popular work."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1872–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shimazaki_Toson2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1872-03-25"
deathDate: "1943-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.82
  momentum:             0.323918113500907
  historical:           20.70702933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  248
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1022193/"
    handle:    "nm1022193"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "توسون شيمازاكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toson Şimazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тасон Сімадзакі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimazaki_T%C5%8Dson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimazaki_T%C5%8Dson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tōson Shimazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tōson Shimazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tōson Shimazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "島崎藤村"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "시마자키 도손"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tōson Shimazaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Симадзаки, Тосон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сімадзакі Тосон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%9B%E5%B4%8E%E8%97%A4%E6%9D%91"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Tôson Shimazaki"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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