Hideki Shirakawa
Hideki Shirakawa (born August 20, 1936, Tokyo, Japan; died 2026), was a Japanese scientist (1936–). Shirakawa's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit.
Hideki Shirakawa’s zodiac sign was Leo, Chinese zodiac was Fire Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Leo, Chinese zodiac was 
Fire Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Hideki
Hideki Shirakawa’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
What Hideki’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on H (8) and closes on I (9). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 9: drive against empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Hideki’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Red & Orange
Lucky day
Sunday
Direction
↓ South
Season
summer
Stones
Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy
Coral · Gold · Flame orange
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 9, trigram Li 離, East group. Best direction East, worst Northeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1936, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Hideki apart
Hideki Shirakawa took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000, at 64.
Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania shaped the training.
Cause of death is recorded as cancer of unknown primary origin.
Wikipedia's editors put Hideki Shirakawa under Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni, People from Gifu Prefecture and Japanese scientists.
Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Tokyo Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000), Order of Culture (2000) and Person of Cultural Merit (2000)
- Cause of death
- cancer of unknown primary origin
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Hideki, according to the stars
Core essence
Hideki is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Hideki is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.
How Hideki wants to be loved
Hideki wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Hideki and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Hideki creates
How Hideki makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Hideki builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Hideki is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Hideki is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Hideki fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Hideki's birth date. Working below.
Where Hideki sits
Six lines
Hideki’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tokyo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
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The sky over Tokyo that night
Computed for 35.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Sulafat stood nearest the zenith over Tokyo at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.4° above the horizon in Lyra.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 81 catalog stars were up in all.
From 35.7°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −54.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 28° below the horizon, Moon down and 11% lit at waxing crescent.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Tokyo, Japan
- Lived in
- Takayama
Wikidata records Takayama as Hideki Shirakawa's home, against Tokyo as the birthplace.
The death is recorded at Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture in 2026.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Hideki Shirakawa: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Hideki's chart is
Chart pattern score
53 / 100 · Unusual
1 unaspected planet · T-square onto Jupiter · No Air planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Leo Sun
Leo SunLoves an audience. Earns one.
Hideki Shirakawa's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1936, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Leo means →Fire Rat
Fire RatResourceful is an understatement.
Hideki Shirakawa was born on August 20, 1936, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rat means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Hideki Shirakawa's birth date, August 20, 1936, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Hideki’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Hideki Shirakawa's date-only chart is Jupiter square Neptune, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Mercury, Venus and Neptune, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Hideki Shirakawa combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Hideki’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 6° Virgo or Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn0.4° to 1.9° orb
Hideki’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableVenustrineUranus0.9° to 2.2° orb
Hideki’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableJupitersquareNeptune1.1° orb
Hideki’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussquareJupiter3.0° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssquareUranus3.0° to 3.6° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.2° to 5.6° orb
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune5.0° to 5.1° orb
stableJupitersquareSaturn6.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.2° orb
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.1° to 11.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Hideki’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironGemini 22°18′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 22°39′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosLibra 3°44′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCancer 2°13′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 24°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Sun 1.9°
- Eros sextile Mars 2.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 2.7°
- Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.8°
Hideki’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury7 pts
in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Mars
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Hideki’s chart
T-square onto Jupiter · Mercury, Saturn, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Jupiter · Saturn, Neptune, JupiterAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Jupiter biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury semi-square Mars 1.6°
- Venus semi-square Pluto 1.6°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 1.9°
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Hideki’s cards
Computed from August 20, 1936. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
LeoChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary☉ Ruled by Sun
Gold Au
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Hideki’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q110916 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by 日本学士院, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Hideki Shirakawa at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
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Quick answers about Hideki Shirakawa’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Hideki Shirakawa?
- Hideki Shirakawa was a Leo: born August 20, 1936, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1936 birth.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 22°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Hideki Shirakawa's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 24°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Hideki Shirakawa's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Venus, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
