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Ichikawa En'o II
Super Kabuki Yamato Takeru, flying over the audience in chunori, Omodakaya. An innovator who pushed out the frame of the classics with “Ennosuke Kabuki” and drew a new audience to kabuki. At twenty-three he succeeded to the same name as his grandfather, and within that year lost his grandfather and his father one after the other. He married twice: from his first wife he parted after three years, and with his second partner he walked forty years together. In his late years he passed the name on to the next generation by his own hand. And he closed his life in a year bearing the same stem-branch as the year he succeeded to his name. Why were succession and ending placed in the same stem-branch? We read eighty-three years — a name inherited, remade and handed on by his own hand — against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Ichikawa En'o II (二代目市川猿翁) — Kabuki actor, formerly Ichikawa Ennosuke III
- Period analysed
- 1939–2023
- Three pillars
- Day 庚辰 / Month 丙子 / Year 己卯
- Void branches
- 申酉 (Monkey–Rooster)
- Void decades
- Ages 21–40 (癸酉 and 壬申 phases)
- Destiny area
- 0.003 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
- His destiny carries a structure with a distinctive gap in the bond with a spouse. Alongside it stand elements that indicate two marriages.
- The twenty years from his twenties to forty overlap a period in which his true intent and ability come out most strongly with a period of void fortune. His succession to the name and his meetings with both partners fall within them.
- His first wife shares the stem-branch of his birth day. His second partner formed a pairing in which each filled the other’s gap.
- Born into the generation whose role is to remake the house’s theatre, he created a new style of kabuki.
- 1963, when he succeeded to the name, and 2023, when he closed his life, are years of the same stem-branch.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did he close his life in a year of the same stem-branch as the year he succeeded to his name?
- Where in his destiny were his two partners placed?
- What overlapped on the registration of his marriage on 28 February 2000?
- What did the years spent apart from his eldest son signify?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1939 | 己卯 | 9 Dec — Born in Tokyo |
| 1963 | 癸卯 (天) | May — Succeeds as Ichikawa Ennosuke III. In the same year his grandfather and father die |
| 1965 | 乙巳 | Marries Yuko Hama; his eldest son is born in December |
| 1968 | 戊申 (天天) | Divorce. Begins living with Murasaki Fujima |
| 1986 | 丙寅 | Feb — Premiere of the Super Kabuki Yamato Takeru |
| 2000 | 庚辰 | 28 Feb — Registers his marriage to Murasaki Fujima |
| 2003 | 癸未 | Nov — Withdraws mid-run through illness |
| 2012 | 壬辰 | Jun — Succeeds as Ichikawa En'o II |
| 2023 | 癸卯 | 13 Sep — Dies |
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
- The four layers of 28 February 2000
- The wife of mutual void
- The wife of 律音
- Twenty years of void for children
- The generation of transformation
- Handing on the name
- From 癸卯 to 癸卯
- Independent systems
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii