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Murasaki Fujima
Founder of the Murasaki-ha Fujima school, actress of Shinkokugeki, and partner of Ichikawa Ennosuke III. As a Nihon buyo dancer and as an actress, she stayed on the main stage into her eighties. At twelve she moved, by her own choice, to the school of the master she admired, and in her teens she received her professional name. More than forty years after marrying her first husband, she faced him in court, and at sixty-four she founded a school of her own. Thirty-two years after she began living with a kabuki actor sixteen years her junior, she married him at seventy-seven. The stem and branch of that year were the same as those of the day her husband was born. Why was the knot tied in the year of so late a marriage? We read her eighty-five years, closed in the month after her final stage, against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Murasaki Fujima (Nihon buyo dancer, actress, founder of the Murasaki-ha Fujima school)
- Period analysed
- 1923–2009
- Three pillars
- Day 丁酉 / Month 丁巳 / Year 癸亥
- Void branches
- 辰巳 (Dragon–Snake)
- Void decades
- From age 105 (not reached in her lifetime)
- Destiny area
- 0.52 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- Her destiny carries a structure of thin ties to her family line. Within the same destiny sits the combination that binds her most strongly to that line.
- A configuration in which two forces pull toward one husband is built in from birth.
- From twenty-five to eighty-four, sixty years of supporting fortune continue. The year she stepped onto the main stage as an actress was its entrance.
- With her second husband she forms a combination in which each fills what the other lacks. The year of their marriage, 2000, carried the stem and branch of the day he was born.
- In the year after her sixty years of supporting fortune ended, she closed her life in the month after her final stage.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did she marry in the year that carried the stem and branch of her husband's day of birth?
- Where in her destiny were her two marriages placed?
- What did the decision to found her own school at sixty-four reveal?
- With what did the close of her life, in the month after her final stage, coincide?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1923 | 癸亥 | 24 May — Born in Tokyo |
| 1941 | 辛巳 (天) | Receives her professional name and takes the name Murasaki Fujima |
| 1944 | 甲申 | Marries Fujima Kanjuro |
| 1948 | 戊子 | Takes the stage as an actress with Shinkokugeki |
| 1968 | 戊申 | Begins living with Ichikawa Ennosuke |
| 1985 | 乙丑 | Divorce proceedings are reported |
| 1987 | 丁卯 | Founds the Murasaki-ha Fujima school |
| 2000 | 庚辰 (天) | 28 Feb — Marries Ichikawa Ennosuke |
| 2009 | 己丑 | 27 Mar — 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
- A husband of mutual void
- Two forces drawn to one husband
- Sixty years of the guardian element
- From professional name to head of a school
- The second place, and a lifelong stage
- 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