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Ichizo Kobayashi
In 1907, when the panic wrecked his plan for a securities firm, a thirty-four-year-old bank clerk turned instead to a suburban railway outside Osaka. He built houses along the line and sold them on instalments, put a spa and an all-girl revue at one end and a department store at the other. On 1 April 1914 the curtain rose on the Takarazuka Revue. What overlapped on that day?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Ichizo Kobayashi — Founder of Hankyu, the Takarazuka Revue and Toho
- Period analysed
- 1873–1957
- Three pillars
- Day 乙卯 / Month 壬子 / Year 壬申
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Destiny area
- 0.21 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 carries strong intellect alongside thin ties to family and to superiors.
- He left home at fifteen and spent fourteen years inside a great bank without being raised up.
- The railway, the housing, Takarazuka, the department store and the films all rose in a forty-year run when what his chart lacked arrived in sequence.
- Takarazuka and Toho were both born in void years, and both still stand today.
- In his last years on the national stage, a peak and a fall came in two consecutive years.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- How did a bank clerk who never rose design a city and its entertainment?
- Why did his ventures all rise within one forty-year span?
- What overlapped on 1 April 1914?
- Why did his time on the national stage not last?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1907 | 丁未 | Oct — joins the founding of Minoo Arima Electric Railway |
| 1910 | 庚戌 | 10 Mar — the Takarazuka and Minoo lines open |
| 1913 | 癸丑 (天) | Jul — forms the Takarazuka girls' choir |
| 1914 | 甲寅 | 1 Apr — first performance of the Takarazuka Revue |
| 1929 | 己巳 | Apr — opens the Hankyu Department Store at Umeda |
| 1937 | 丁丑 (天) | Founds Toho Eiga |
| 1940 | 庚辰 | Jul — becomes Minister of Commerce and Industry |
| 1946 | 丙戌 | Purged from public office |
| 1951 | 辛卯 | Oct — becomes president of Toho |
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
- Composite numerical table
- Month void and early years
- Forty years of guardian elements
- The four layers of 1 April 1914
- Ventures born in void years
- The national stage
- The adverse decade and last years
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii