# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tsuguo-hongo
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:42:13.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tsuguo-hongo"
name: "Tsuguo Hongo"
slug: "tsuguo-hongo"
description: "Tsuguo Hongo  was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the biogeography and taxonomy of Agaricales. Hongo entered the Department of Biology at what is now Hiroshima University in 1943, where he studied botany until graduating in 1946 with a B.Sc.\nHongo received his Ph.D. degree, entitled \"Agaricales of Japan\", from Kyoto University in 1961 while working under Dr. Shiro Kitamura."
tagline: "Japanese mycologist (1923-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professeur_Hong%C5%8D_Tsuguo_1989_8-25_Asahinomori.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-11-01"
deathDate: "2007-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4615384615384616
  historical:           7.204896
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguo_Hongo"
    title: "Tsuguo Hongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguo_Hongo"
    title: "Tsuguo Hongo"
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    title: "Tsuguo Hongo"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguo_Hong%C5%8D"
    title: "Tsuguo Hongō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AC%E9%83%B7%E6%AC%A1%E9%9B%84"
    title: "本郷次雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguo_Hongo"
    title: "Tsuguo Hongo"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguo_Hongo"
    title: "Tsuguo Hongo"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A6%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BE"
    title: "Хонго, Цугуо"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump