# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasumasa-morimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:11.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasumasa-morimura"
name: "Yasumasa Morimura"
slug: "yasumasa-morimura"
description: "Yasumasa Morimura is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of recognizable artworks and figures from art history, history, and mass media through his adoption of personas that transcend national, ethnic, gendered, and racial boundaries. Across his photographic and performative series, Morimura's works explore a number of interconnected themes, including: the nature of identity and its ability to undergo change, postcolonialism, authorship, and the Western view of Japan – and Asia, more broadly – as feminine."
tagline: "Japanese photographer and video artist (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yasumasa_Morimura_(Osaka_1990).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1951-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.809257333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ymorimura"
    handle:    "ymorimura"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yasumasamorimura/"
    handle:    "yasumasamorimura"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/morimura.yasumasa"
    handle:    "morimura.yasumasa"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/604802"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ياسوماسا موريمورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasumasa_Morimura"
    title: "Yasumasa Morimura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E6%9D%91%E6%B3%B0%E6%98%8C"
    title: "森村泰昌"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%AF%D1%81%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Моримура, Ясумаса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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