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Saigo Takamori
Born into a low-ranking samurai family, twice exiled to distant islands, he came to stand at the centre of the Meiji Restoration. On 6 April 1868, the day before the planned assault, he sat across from Katsu Kaishu and spared a city of a million from war. Nine years later, his life ended at Shiroyama. He almost never reached for what came to him. He was found, recalled and carried. What did time hold for such a man?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Saigo Takamori — Meiji Restoration
- Period analysed
- 1828–1877
- Three pillars
- Day 戊寅 / Month 癸丑 / Year 丁亥
- Void branches
- 申酉 (Monkey–Rooster)
- Void decades
- 36–55 (己酉 and 戊申)
- Destiny area
- 0.86 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
- His destiny is a great vessel that receives everyone without distinction, and around which people gather.
- His spirit is constantly charged with expectation by reality, and pushed forward without seeking it.
- For twenty years from the age of thirty-six, time ran outside its usual course, and every deed of the Restoration happened within it.
- The first decade of that period was also the decade in which his total power stood at its lifetime low.
- In that decade of least power, he opened a city of a million without battle.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did the greatest result come in the decade of least total power?
- Why did every deed of the Restoration fall within a single twenty-year span?
- What overlapped on 6 April 1868?
- What was placed in the year of his death?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1858 | 戊午 | 20 Dec — enters the sea with the monk Gessho; he alone is revived |
| 1862 | 壬戌 | Exiled to Tokunoshima, then Okinoerabu |
| 1864 | 甲子 (天) | Pardoned and recalled to Kagoshima |
| 1866 | 丙寅 (天) | 7 Mar — the Satsuma–Choshu Alliance |
| 1868 | 戊辰 (天) | 6 Apr — meets Katsu Kaishu; the assault on Edo is called off |
| 1873 | 癸酉 (天天) | Leaves the government in the political crisis of 1873 |
| 1877 | 丁丑 (天) | 24 Sep — dies at Shiroyama at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade · (天天) = void year inside a void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The four layers of 6 April 1868
- The bloodless surrender of Edo
- The twenty-year void
- Bonds and succession
- The receptive structure and paired stars
- 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