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Akechi Mitsuhide
Discovered by his lord and given a castle, he rose until a whole province was entrusted to him. On a summer morning he struck that lord down. The realm he had seized slipped from him in just eleven days. The destinies of lord and retainer were bound in a form that held each other up. Why did he cut that support himself? And why does the greatest upheaval of his life appear in the ten years after his death?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Akechi Mitsuhide — Sengoku Warlord
- Period analysed
- 1528–1582
- Three pillars
- Day 壬子 / Month 乙卯 / Year 戊子
- Void branches
- 寅卯 (Tiger–Rabbit)
- Destiny area
- 0.29 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
- A destiny of the form in which water too strong takes shape as power only when held back by an embankment of earth.
- The one who served as that embankment was his lord.
- Lord and retainer each carried the energy that supported the other.
- The day he struck down his lord was a day when the energy that supports him came round.
- The greatest upheaval of his life was placed in the ten years after his death.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did he strike down the lord who had raised him?
- What overlapped on the two days of Honnoji and Yamazaki?
- In what phase did the two years of the Tanba campaign sit?
- What does it mean that the greatest upheaval appears after death?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1568 | 戊辰 | Follows Ashikaga Yoshiaki’s march on Kyoto; enters Nobunaga’s service |
| 1571 | 辛未 | Builds Sakamoto Castle |
| 1579 | 己卯■ | Brings Tanba under control |
| 1580 | 庚辰 | Granted the whole province of Tanba |
| 1582 | 壬午 | 1 Jul (2nd day of the 6th lunar month) — the Honnoji Incident |
| 1582 | 壬午 | 12 Jul (13th day of the 6th lunar month) — Battle of Yamazaki; killed that night |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. ■ = void year.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The lord and the guardian
- The four layers of 1 July 1582
- From Honnoji to Yamazaki
- Tanba and the void
- The sixth phase, after death
- 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