Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata (born June 11, 1899, Osaka, Japan; died 1972), was a Japanese novelist. Kawabata is best remembered for The Dancing Girl of Izu, The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country. Kawabata's honours include Nobel Prize in Literature, Order of Culture and Noma Literary Prize.
Yasunari Kawabata’s zodiac sign was Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Gemini, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Yasunari Kawabata’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Storyteller
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
Yasunari’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 5
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Pearl, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Rose pink · Lilac · Gold
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Yasunari, according to the stars
Core essence
Yasunari is two conversations at once and somehow following both. Curiosity is the core of it: the quick question, the sideways joke, the friend who texts you an article at midnight because it reminded them of you. Yasunari needs newness the way other people need sleep, and gives the people around them the gift of never being bored.
The vibe
Underneath, Yasunari is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Yasunari needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.
How Yasunari wants to be loved
Yasunari 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 Yasunari is yours, they stay, and they expect the same.
How Yasunari creates
How Yasunari makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Yasunari creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Yasunari is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Yasunari is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Yasunari 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.
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Yasunari Kawabata at a glance
Gemini Sun
Gemini SunTwo minds, both talking.
Yasunari Kawabata's Sun was in Gemini for the whole of June 11, 1899, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Gemini readings associate the sign with curiosity, conversation and range: several interests held at once and a talent for connecting people and ideas. Astrologers describe it as the mutable air sign, ruled by Mercury. The corresponding tension is restlessness, with the classical caution that the next subject is always more interesting than finishing the current one.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Yasunari Kawabata was born on June 11, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Yasunari Kawabata's birth date, June 11, 1899, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Yasunari’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yasunari Kawabata's date-only chart is Mercury conjunction Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, sit together in Gemini, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Yasunari Kawabata combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Storyteller.
Yasunari’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Yasunari Kawabata, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 16° to 27° Cancer 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.
stableSunoppositionSaturn0.0° to 1.0° orb
Yasunari’s core identity pulls against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercuryconjunctionPluto0.0° to 1.2° orb
Yasunari’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarssextileNeptune2.7° to 3.2° orb
Yasunari’s drive opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussquareMars2.9° to 3.5° orb
Yasunari’s affections grind against their drive.
stableMarssextileJupiter3.2° to 3.8° orb
Yasunari’s drive opens doors for their growth. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune3.8° to 3.9° orb
Yasunari’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableSunconjunctionMercury3.9° to 5.2° orb
Yasunari’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableSunconjunctionNeptune3.9° to 4.8° orb
Yasunari’s core identity and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn3.9° to 6.2° orb
Yasunari’s mind pulls against their discipline from across the wheel.
stableSunconjunctionPluto4.2° to 5.1° orb
Yasunari’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableSaturnoppositionPluto5.1° to 5.2° orb
Yasunari’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitertrineNeptune6.4° to 6.5° orb
Yasunari’s growth flows straight into their imagination. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable6 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yasunari’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 ℞Sagittarius 9°11′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Yasunari building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ Ceres ℞Libra 27°32′
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Yasunari is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosCancer 29°04′ (moves 0.92° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Cancer is read as desire bound up with safety and memory. Yasunari is read as drawn to people who feel like somewhere to come back to.
⚕ HygieaVirgo 16°23′ (moves 0.22° 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. Yasunari is read as attentive to small signals and prone to over-attending.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 11°40′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Yasunari is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
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.
- Ceres sextile Mars 0.3°
- Hygiea square Mercury 1.0°
- Hygiea square Pluto 1.1°
- Eros square Jupiter 1.7°
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°).
Yasunari’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. ☿ Mercury11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Yasunari is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Yasunari’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 Gemini · Sun, Mercury, Neptune, PlutoThree 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.
- Mars quintile Pluto 0.1°
- Mercury quintile Mars 0.2°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 0.3°
- Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.3°
- Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pluto 0.4°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Yasunari Kawabata, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Yasunari’s cards
Every card is computed from June 11, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Yasunari Kawabata, 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
Yasunari’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q43736, 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.
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The same Yasunari Kawabata 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.
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Quick answers about Yasunari Kawabata’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Yasunari Kawabata?
- Yasunari Kawabata was a Gemini: born June 11, 1899, which puts the Sun in Gemini for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Yasunari Kawabata's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 11, 1899 birth.
- What time was Yasunari Kawabata 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 Yasunari Kawabata's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology from the June 11, 1899 birth date.
- What was Yasunari Kawabata's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 9°. Position from JPL Horizons for the June 11, 1899 birth date.
- Where was Yasunari Kawabata's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Yasunari Kawabata's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Gemini; in its own sign, Gemini; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Sun is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
