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Momoko Sakura
Chibi Maruko-chan, Coji-Coji, Momo no Kanzume, Saru no Koshikake, Odoru Pompokolin. Maruko, a third-grader living in the town of Shimizu in Shizuoka, with her family, Grandpa Tomozo, Tama-chan and Hanawa-kun. Momoko Sakura (Miki Miura) took the small moments of everyday life that everyone has passed through and, through observation and laughter, turned them into a story for the whole nation. As a manga artist, as an essayist and as a lyricist, she opened many fields from a single desk. On 31 December 1990, Odoru Pompokolin, for which she wrote the lyrics, won the Japan Record Award. She was twenty-five, in the middle of the decade in which the forces that protected her came round. And that month fell in a blank period of fortune. Why did the everyday life of a girl from Shimizu become the nation's story? What was this vessel promised at birth? We read the vessel she was born with against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Momoko Sakura (さくらももこ / Miki Miura) — Manga artist, essayist, lyricist
- Period analysed
- 1965–2018
- Three pillars
- Day 壬戌 / Month 辛巳 / Year 乙巳
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Destiny area
- 1.24 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 holds a chart of honour in which the power to act and the power to express become one.
- In her teens, when the foundation of a life is laid, she was blessed with protecting forces and a great combination.
- The doors of her work opened outward in each year of a blank period of fortune.
- Her national hits gathered in the decade in which the protecting forces came round.
- Her life closed in a year when two unfavourable cycles overlapped.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did the everyday life of a girl from Shimizu become the nation's story?
- What overlapped on 31 December 1990, the night of the Japan Record Award?
- Why did manga, lyrics and essays all open from a single desk?
- How did the foundation laid in her teens work through the rest of her life?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1984 | 甲子 (天) | Debuts as a manga artist |
| 1986 | 丙寅 | Chibi Maruko-chan begins serialisation in Ribon |
| 1989 | 己巳 | Kodansha Manga Award |
| 1990 | 己巳 | 7 Jan — The TV anime begins |
| 1990 | 庚午 | 31 Dec — Odoru Pompokolin wins the Japan Record Award |
| 1991 | 辛未 | Her first essay collection, Momo no Kanzume, becomes a bestseller |
| 1994 | 甲戌 | Coji-Coji begins serialisation |
| 1997 | 丁丑 (天) | Coji-Coji is made into a TV anime |
| 2018 | 戊戌 | 15 Aug — Dies |
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
- The great combination of the first phase
- Windows of 子丑
- The decade of 癸未
- The chart of honour
- Roots of the adverse elements
- The four layers of 31 December 1990
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii