# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yanagi-soetsu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:37:27.383Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yanagi-soetsu"
name: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
slug: "yanagi-soetsu"
description: "Yanagi Sōetsu , also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi, was a Japanese art critic, philosopher, and founder of the mingei movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s."
tagline: "Japanese philosopher (1889-1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soetsu.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1889"
deathDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.48289333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E5%AE%97%E6%82%85"
    title: "柳宗悅"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "ياناجى سويتسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_Muneyoshi"
    title: "Yanagi Muneyoshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Detsu_Yanagi"
    title: "Sōetsu Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soetsu_Yanagi"
    title: "Soetsu Yanagi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E5%AE%97%E6%82%A6"
    title: "柳宗悦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%82%98%EA%B8%B0_%EB%AC%B4%EB%84%A4%EC%9A%94%EC%8B%9C"
    title: "야나기 무네요시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagi_S%C5%8Detsu"
    title: "Yanagi Sōetsu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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