Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui (born October 4, 1918, Nara, Japan; died 1998), was a Japanese chemist. Fukui's honours include Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Order of Culture and Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class.
Kenichi Fukui’s zodiac sign was Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse, with Life Path 6 in numerology.
Libra, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Horse, with 
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Kenichi Fukui’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Diplomat
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.
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Kenichi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
6 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Citrine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Amber · Blush · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Kenichi, according to the stars
Core essence
Kenichi makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Kenichi is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
How Kenichi wants to be loved
Kenichi 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 Kenichi and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Kenichi creates
How Kenichi 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. Kenichi 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: Kenichi is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Kenichi is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Kenichi has boundless energy for anything with a horizon in it and none for the small print. Aim them at something far away and step back.
Computed from Kenichi's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Kenichi Fukui at a glance
Libra Sun
Libra SunFair to a fault, slow to pick.
Kenichi Fukui's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 4, 1918, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Libra readings associate the sign with balance, fairness and partnership: an instinct for the other side of an argument and for making a room feel at ease. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal air sign, ruled by Venus. The corresponding tension is indecision, with the classical caution that weighing every side can become a way of never choosing one.
Earth Horse
Earth HorseHappiest halfway there.
Kenichi Fukui was born on October 4, 1918, which falls in a Earth Horse year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Horse readings emphasise energy, independence and movement: a sign happiest with somewhere to go and impatient with fences. The Chinese almanacs describe the Horse as sociable, quick and difficult to keep in one place. The corresponding caution in the tradition is inconstancy, and the habit of leaving before the work of staying has begun.
Life Path 6
Life Path 6Feeds the room, forgets to eat.
Kenichi Fukui's birth date, October 4, 1918, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 6 readings associate the number with care, responsibility and beauty: home, family and the instinct to support the people nearby. Numerologists describe it as the path of the nurturer. The corresponding tension is over-responsibility, with the caution that carrying other people's burdens can become a way of avoiding one's own.
What stands out in Kenichi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Kenichi Fukui's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Fire/Air emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Kenichi Fukui combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Diplomat.
Kenichi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Kenichi Fukui, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 23° to 5° Virgo or Libra 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.
stableMoonconjunctionVenus0.0° to 7.3° orb
Kenichi’s feelings and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoonconjunctionMercury0.1° to 7.3° orb
Kenichi’s feelings and mind act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars0.1° to 1.2° orb
Kenichi’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSaturnoppositionUranus0.2° to 0.4° orb
Kenichi’s discipline pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableSunsextileNeptune0.7° to 1.7° orb
Kenichi’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquarePluto2.9° to 3.9° orb
Kenichi’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableSunsquareJupiter3.8° to 4.7° orb
Kenichi’s core identity grinds against their growth.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus3.9° to 4.5° orb
Kenichi’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMercurysquarePluto4.4° to 6.2° orb
Kenichi’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto7.7° orb
Kenichi’s growth and depths act as one.
possibleMoonsextileMarsorb from 0.0° to 8.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquarePlutoorb from 1.6° to 13.5° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Kenichi’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.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 0°46′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Kenichi may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresCapricorn 2°16′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Capricorn is read as nurture through structure and provision. The reading has Kenichi caring by building something that lasts for others.
♡ ErosVirgo 10°16′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Virgo is read as desire expressed through attention to detail: noticing, improving, being useful. Kenichi is read as slow to start and exact once started.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 19°12′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Kenichi feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 17°31′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Libra is read as the part of Kenichi that will not keep the peace at the price of the self. Fairness, on these terms, is not the same as niceness.
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.
- Chiron opposition Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres square Mercury 0.9°
- Chiron trine Mars 1.2°
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°).
Kenichi’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. ♀ Venus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Saturn, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus; 4 major aspects
A Venus-led chart is read as taste and relationship setting the terms: Kenichi 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 Kenichi’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.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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.
- Sun semi-square Saturn 0.6°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.9°
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 1.2°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 1.3°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Kenichi Fukui, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Kenichi’s cards
Every card is computed from October 4, 1918, 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
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Kenichi Fukui, 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
Kenichi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q217734, 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 Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Kenichi Fukui at Wikipedia.
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.
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Quick answers about Kenichi Fukui’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Kenichi Fukui?
- Kenichi Fukui was a Libra: born October 4, 1918, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Horse.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 4, 1918 birth.
- What time was Kenichi Fukui 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 Kenichi Fukui's Life Path number?
- Life Path 6, calculated in numerology from the October 4, 1918 birth date.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 4, 1918 birth date.
- Where was Kenichi Fukui's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 17°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Kenichi Fukui's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
