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Katsu Kaishu
Born into a poor, unranked retainer family of the shogunate, he taught himself Dutch learning, entered the navy and crossed the Pacific aboard the Kanrin Maru. On 6 April 1868, on the second day of his talks with Saigo Takamori, the assault on Edo was called off. He never took the highest office. He stood between two sides, and he protected by stepping back. What did time hold for such a man?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Katsu Kaishu — Bloodless surrender of Edo
- Period analysed
- 1823–1899
- Three pillars
- Day 庚子 / Month 乙卯 / Year 癸未
- Void branches
- 辰巳 (Dragon–Snake)
- Destiny area
- 1.09 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 is a vessel that moves the whole from behind rather than from the front, and it belongs to the perfect pattern, the highest class of chart.
- His time runs without his own choosing: placed by circumstance, he stands between two camps.
- For thirty years from the age of three, the guardians of the perfect pattern ran through three cycles in a row, and in deep poverty the foundations of the sword and of Dutch learning were laid.
- On 6 April 1868, both the year and the month stood in a void, and the energy of destruction was fourfold.
- On the day the energy of destruction ran strongest, he saved a city of a million by stepping back.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did a man who never took the highest office carry the settlement of an era?
- What did thirty years of poverty prepare?
- What overlapped on 6 April 1868?
- How does the same day look from Saigo's side?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1850 | 庚戌 | Opens a school of Dutch learning at Akasaka |
| 1855 | 乙卯 | Enters the Nagasaki Naval Training Institute |
| 1860 | 庚申 | 10 Feb — sails from Uraga aboard the Kanrin Maru |
| 1864 | 甲子 | 11 Oct — first meets Saigo Takamori; dismissed the same year |
| 1866 | 丙寅 | 10 Oct — negotiates a ceasefire with Choshu at Miyajima |
| 1868 | 戊辰 (天) | 6 Apr — meets Saigo; the assault on Edo is called off |
| 1873 | 癸酉 | Becomes councillor and Minister of the Navy |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
15 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- Thirty years of the perfect-pattern guardians
- Thirteen years of sea and negotiation
- The four layers of 6 April 1868
- The bloodless surrender of Edo
- Set against Saigo Takamori
- Lineage and succession
- 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