# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshio-kosaku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:05:37.779Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshio-kosaku"
name: "Yoshio Kōsaku"
slug: "yoshio-kosaku"
description: "Yoshio Kōsaku , also known as Yoshio Kōgyū  was a Japanese physician and scholar of \"Dutch studies\" (Rangaku), and the chief Dutch translator in Nagasaki, often accompanying Dutch East India Company officials on missions to Edo and other official business."
tagline: "Japanese translator"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Yoshio_Kogyu_Manuscriptcopy.jpg/330px-Yoshio_Kogyu_Manuscriptcopy.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1724"
deathDate: "1800-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.54
  momentum:             0.2991452991452991
  historical:           5.875342666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_K%C5%8Dsaku"
    title: "Yoshio Kōsaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "يوشيو كوساكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_K%C5%8Dsaku"
    title: "Yoshio Kōsaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E9%9B%84%E8%80%95%E7%89%9B"
    title: "吉雄耕牛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A6%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "یوشیئو کوساکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_K%C5%8Dsaku"
    title: "Yoshio Kōsaku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635200"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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