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Ninomiya Sontoku
He lost his father at fourteen and his mother at sixteen, and the family scattered. The boy rebuilt the family farm on his own, and was later entrusted by his domain with reviving ruined villages. But the work stalled, and in 1829 he left Sakuramachi and shut himself away at Naritasan. On 10 May, the day his twenty-one-day fast ended, what overlapped?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Ninomiya Sontoku — Agrarian reformer; founder of Hotoku thought
- Period analysed
- 1787–1856
- Three pillars
- Day 戊子 / Month 戊申 / Year 丁未
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat)
- Destiny area
- 0.076 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 binds self and society on a large scale, while his ties to his parents run thin.
- The deaths of his parents, the breakup of the family and the rebuilding of the farm all fell inside a twenty-year void.
- His posting to Sakuramachi, his foresight of a cold summer and the Nikko commission fell in the same kind of year, ten years apart.
- In 1829, on the day he left his stalled work to fast, the bond in his chart was completed by the ten-year cycle.
- A destiny layered again and again with the power to order wealth produced a method for rebuilding the finances of villages and domains.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- How did a boy who had lost everything rebuild his family farm?
- Why did his work stall, and then turn to success after the fast?
- What overlapped on 10 May 1829?
- When did the great tasks of his last years arrive?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1800 | 庚申 (天) | Loses his father at fourteen |
| 1802 | 壬戌 (天) | Loses his mother; the family scatters |
| 1806 | 丙寅 (天) | Returns to the family farm and begins rebuilding it |
| 1823 | 癸未 (天) | Moves with his family to Sakuramachi in Shimotsuke |
| 1829 | 己丑 | Twenty-one-day fast at Naritasan |
| 1836 | 丙申 | The Tenpo famine |
| 1842 | 壬寅 | Taken into shogunal service |
| 1853 | 癸丑 | Ordered to revive the Nikko shrine lands |
| 1856 | 丙辰 | 17 Nov — dies at Imaichi |
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
- Year void and the decade void
- Milestones in the years of 癸
- The four layers of 10 May 1829
- The seal of forgiveness
- Layers of wealth: budgeting and giving
- Twenty years of favourable stars
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii