Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake (born April 22, 1938, Hiroshima, Japan; died 2022), was a Japanese fashion designer. Miyake's honours include Order of Culture, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Praemium Imperiale.
Issey Miyake’s zodiac sign was Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Tiger, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.How compatible are you with Issey Miyake?
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Issey Miyake’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.
Issey’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 1 · 3 · 4
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Diamond, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
White · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Issey, according to the stars
Core essence
Issey is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Issey is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.
The vibe
Underneath, Issey is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Issey needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.
How Issey wants to be loved
Issey wants to be loved slowly and for real. Venus in Taurus is touch, food, the good blanket, the plan that does not change. They are sensual and steady and they want to be shown, not told: the small physical kindnesses count double. Once Issey is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Issey creates
How Issey 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. Issey 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: Issey is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Issey 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 rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Issey is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Issey's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Issey sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Issey Miyake's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 22, 1938, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Earth Tiger
Earth TigerBig heart, short fuse.
Issey Miyake was born on April 22, 1938, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Issey Miyake's birth date, April 22, 1938, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Issey’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Issey Miyake's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Issey Miyake 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.
Issey’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Issey Miyake, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 17° to 29° Capricorn depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.2° orb
Issey’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextilePluto0.6° to 1.3° orb
Issey’s drive opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableVenustrineNeptune1.0° to 2.3° orb
Issey’s affections flow straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssquareJupiter1.7° to 2.2° orb
Issey’s drive grinds against their growth. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMercurysquarePluto2.8° to 3.5° orb
Issey’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableSunsquarePluto3.0° to 3.9° orb
Issey’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableMercurysextileJupiter3.7° to 4.5° orb
Issey’s mind opens doors for their growth. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsextileJupiter4.0° to 4.8° orb
Issey’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableUranustrineNeptune5.7° to 5.8° orb
Issey’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusconjunctionUranus6.8° to 8.0° orb
Issey’s affections and need for freedom act as one.
possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMarsorb from 0.0° to 11.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth7 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed6 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Issey’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironGemini 27°09′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Issey turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresAries 15°27′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Aries is read as nurture through action: Issey looks after people by pushing them forward and expects the same in return.
♡ ErosLeo 18°07′ (moves 0.79° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Leo is read as desire that wants to be adored and to adore in return. The reading has Issey loving with an audience in mind, even an audience of one.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 20°19′ (moves 0.09° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Virgo sits in the sign the tradition links to it most closely: health as maintenance. Issey is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 2°56′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Issey is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Hygiea trine Venus 0.1°
- Chiron trine Jupiter 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Neptune 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Sun 1.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.9°
- Eros square Venus 2.3°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Issey’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♀ Venus11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun3 pts
3 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Issey is read as choosing by what is beautiful and who is in the room.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Issey’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Jupiter semi-square Saturn 1.0°
- Jupiter quincunx Pluto 1.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Issey Miyake, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Born in Tiger years
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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Issey’s cards
Every card is computed from April 22, 1938, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Issey Miyake, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Issey’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q469027, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Hsinhuei Chiou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Issey Miyake at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Issey Miyake.
Quick answers about Issey Miyake’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Issey Miyake?
- Issey Miyake was a Taurus: born April 22, 1938, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Tiger.
- What was Issey Miyake's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 22, 1938 birth.
- What time was Issey Miyake born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What was Issey Miyake's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the April 22, 1938 birth date.
- What was Issey Miyake's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 27°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 22, 1938 birth date.
- Where was Issey Miyake's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 2°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Issey Miyake's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; in its own sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Uranus; 2 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
