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Asako Hirooka
Asako Hirooka's destiny keeps a protective element coming round in her ten-year phases for forty years, and holds within them her leap from coal mines to a women's college and life insurance. Born into the Mitsui family and married into Kajimaya, an Osaka money-exchange house, she carried the house through the crisis of the Restoration with coal mining and banking, and devoted herself to founding Japan Women's College and to creating Daido Life. We read the phases of destiny and time against her path: her marriage, the rebuilding of Kajimaya, the Uruno coal mine, the women's college and life insurance, and her later years after retirement.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Asako Hirooka (広岡浅子) — Kajimaya; one of the founders of Daido Life
- Period analysed
- 1849–1919
- Three pillars
- Day 丁酉 / Month 甲戌 / Year 己酉
- Void branches
- 辰巳 (Dragon–Snake)
- Ten-year phase transforming to earth
- 己卯, 1896–1906
- Destiny area
- 1.06 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 15 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- Her marriage in 1865 lies within the ten-year phase of her first guardian element.
- For forty years from 1886, guardian elements keep coming round in her ten-year phases. Her leaps in coal, banking, cotton, the women's college and life insurance all fit within them.
- 1904 is a void year. Her husband's death and her retirement from management fall in the same year.
- The twenty years from 1906 are a ten-year-phase void. She stood at the forefront until just before her death.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- On which axis did her destiny stand?
- What did the forty years of guardian elements set in motion?
- Why did she place her businesses in men's names?
- With what did her dream of restoring the house come true at the same moment?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1849 | 己酉 | 18 Oct — Born the fourth daughter of Takamasu Mitsui of the Demizu Mitsui family in Kyoto |
| 1865 | 乙丑 | Marries Shingoro Hirooka, second son of Kajimaya |
| 1869 | 己巳 (天) | Her father-in-law dies; Shingoro's younger brother Masaaki succeeds as ninth head |
| 1871 | 辛未 | The abolition of the domains plunges Kajimaya into crisis; she works tirelessly to rebuild it |
| 1884 | 甲申 | Opens Hirotan Shoten and enters coal mining |
| 1886 | 丙戌 | Acquires the Uruno coal mine in Chikuho |
| 1888 | 丁亥 | Jan — Founds Kajima Bank |
| 1892 | 壬辰 (天) | Founds Nippon Menka |
| 1897 | 丁酉 | The Uruno mine strikes coal |
| 1899 | 己亥 | Sells the mine to the government; acquires management control of Asahi Life |
| 1901 | 辛丑 | 20 Apr — Japan Women's College opens |
| 1902 | 壬寅 | 15 Jul — Three companies merge and Daido Life is founded |
| 1904 | 甲辰 (天) | Her husband Shingoro dies. She hands the business to her son-in-law Keizo and withdraws from management |
| 1911 | 辛亥 (天) | Dec — Baptised by Tsuneteru Miyagawa |
| 1919 | 戊午 (天) | 14 Jan — Dies at her villa in Azabu, Tokyo |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Rebuilding Kajimaya
- The decade transforming to earth
- Head of the house beyond the name
- The two void decades
- Hexagrams and the year chart
- Years of special stem-branch pairs
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
- The guardian element of the complete form
- The closing span and the outcome of 納音
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii