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Hibari Misora
Kanashiki Kuchibue, Ringo Oiwake, Yawara, Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni, and the first People's Honour Award ever given to a woman. Born to a fishmonger's family in Yokohama, the girl who failed an NHK amateur singing contest was picked for the stage two years later and became a national singer at twelve. An acid attack, a two-year marriage, her brothers' scandals and the break in her Kōhaku appearances, her mother's death and her illness — she passed through all of it and remained the queen of Shōwa popular song, until she died at fifty-two on 24 June 1989, the first year of Heisei. What raised the twelve-year-old to the summit, and what overlapped on the day her life closed? We read it against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Hibari Misora — Singer and actress, queen of Shōwa popular song
- Period analysed
- 1937–1989
- Three pillars
- Day 丙辰 / Month 乙巳 / Year 丁丑
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Destiny area
- 0.965 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
- Her destiny is a structure with thin ties to her parents and with the power to convey as its largest element.
- Her discovery for the stage and her debut fall inside a window of void.
- The forty years in which she stood at the summit of Shōwa song were placed in a time when no support ran.
- The first decade in which support arrived holds her mother’s death, her illness and the Phoenix concert.
- 24 June 1989 was a day on which that support was lost twice over — in the year the calendar of her birth returned.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- How did a girl who failed an amateur contest become a national singer at twelve?
- Where in time were the forty years at the summit placed?
- Marriage, children, brothers — what overlapped in each absence?
- What overlapped on 24 June 1989?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1948 | 戊子 (天) | May — picked for Kawada Haruhisa’s show at the Yokohama Kokusai Theatre |
| 1949 | 己丑 (天) | Kanashiki Kuchibue makes her a national singer at twelve |
| 1952 | 壬辰 | Ringo Oiwake becomes a major hit |
| 1957 | 丙申 | Jan — acid is thrown at her at the Asakusa Kokusai Theatre |
| 1962 | 壬寅 | Marries Akira Kobayashi (divorced 1964) |
| 1965 | 乙巳 | Japan Record Award for Yawara |
| 1973 | 癸丑 (天) | Her run of Kōhaku appearances is broken |
| 1981 | 辛酉 | Jul — her mother Kimie dies |
| 1988 | 戊辰 | 11 Apr — the Phoenix concert at Tokyo Dome |
| 1989 | 己巳 | 24 Jun — dies at fifty-two |
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
- Void at birth and its five absences
- The world entered through the void
- The summit of the decades
- The voided beginning and the seals
- The final decade
- The four layers of 24 June 1989
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii