Yasushi Nagao
Yasushi Nagao (born May 20, 1930, Tokyo, Japan; died 2009), was a Japanese photographer. Nagao's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Photography, George Polk Award and World Press Photo of the Year.
Yasushi Nagao’s zodiac sign was Taurus, Chinese zodiac was Metal Horse, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Taurus, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Horse, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Yasushi
Yasushi Nagao’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Lightkeeper
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
What Yasushi’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
3
Soul Urge · being heard
11
Personality · perceptive
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yasushi’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Emerald, Diamond, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🤍 White Camellia
Ivory · Blush · Silver
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 6, trigram Qian 乾, West group. Best direction West, worst Southeast.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1930, 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 Yasushi apart
The George Polk Award came in 1960, when Yasushi Nagao was 30.
Yasushi Nagao was taught at Chiba University.
On Wikipedia the categories read Photographers from Tokyo and Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners.
Cher (1946) and José Mujica (1935) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Chiba University
- Awards
- World Press Photo of the Year (1961), Pulitzer Prize for Photography (1961) and George Polk Award (1960)
- Citizenship
- Japan and Empire of Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 13
What the chart says
Yasushi, according to the stars
Core essence
Yasushi 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 Yasushi 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, Yasushi needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Yasushi needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Yasushi wants to be loved
Yasushi wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Yasushi like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Yasushi creates
How Yasushi makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Yasushi 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: Yasushi 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 Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Yasushi 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 told to wait. Mars in Aries means Yasushi gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Yasushi's birth date. Working below.
Where Yasushi sits
Six lines
Yasushi’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 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 likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Yasushi Nagao
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Tokyo on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Tokyo that night
Computed for 35.69°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Cor Caroli stood nearest the zenith over Tokyo at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.7° above the horizon in Canes Venatici.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.
Tokyo sits at 35.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Tokyo at all: they sit past the −54.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 52% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 23° down.
How unusual Yasushi's chart is
Chart pattern score
27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Uranus · 1 planet at a critical degree
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.
Score your own chart →Taurus Sun
Taurus SunStubborn is the polite word.
Yasushi Nagao's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 20, 1930, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Taurus means →Metal Horse
Metal HorseBright, restless, warm.
Yasushi Nagao was born on May 20, 1930, which falls in a Metal Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Yasushi Nagao's birth date, May 20, 1930, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Yasushi’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yasushi Nagao's date-only chart is Sun conjunction Mercury, with an orb of under 1°.
- Yasushi Nagao combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Lightkeeper.
Yasushi’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 16° to 28° Aquarius depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 0.9° orb
Yasushi’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMoontrineVenus0.0° to 6.9° orb
Yasushi’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMoontrineJupiter0.1° to 6.7° orb
Yasushi’s feelings flow straight into their growth.
stableMarssquarePluto1.2° to 1.9° orb
stableMarssextileJupiter1.7° to 2.2° orb
stableSunsquareNeptune2.0° to 2.9° orb
stableMercurysquareNeptune2.0° to 2.6° orb
stableVenusconjunctionJupiter2.0° to 3.0° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.6° to 2.7° orb
stableUranussquarePluto4.0° orb
stableVenussextileMars4.2° to 4.6° orb
stableMarsconjunctionUranus5.2° to 5.9° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Yasushi’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 15°07′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 6°20′ (moves 0.41° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 0°60′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaTaurus 16°13′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 10°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Pluto 1.7°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.5°
- Eros sextile Sun 2.6°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 2.8°
Yasushi’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects
2. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury5 pts
disposes Venus, Jupiter, Neptune; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Yasushi’s chart
T-square onto Uranus · Saturn, Pluto, UranusAn 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.
- Mercury semi-square Uranus 0.4°
- Sun semi-square Uranus 0.5°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.9°
More people like Yasushi
Other photographers
- Paul Poiret1879
- Malcolm Browne1931
- Pieter Zeeman1865
- Horst Faas1933
- Fridtjof Nansen1861
- Eddie Adams1933
Born in Japan
- Yoichiro NambuAmerican theoretical physicist
- Akira SuzukiJapanese chemist (1930 - )
- Kenichi FukuiJapanese chemist
- Heisuke HironakaJapanese mathematician
- Olivia de HavillandBritish actress
- Syukuro ManabeJapanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
More charts like Yasushi’s
Fellow Taurus suns
- Elizabeth IIQueen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
- Sigmund FreudAustrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Salvador DalíSpanish artist
Born in Horse years
- Katie HolmesAmerican actress
- AaliyahAmerican R&B singer
- Rosamund PikeEnglish actress
Also born on May 20
- Cher1946
- José Mujica1935
- Petr Čech1982
- Timothy Olyphant1968
- Tony Goldwyn1960
- Cindy McCain1954
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Robert MitchumAmerican actor
- Ursula AndressSwiss actress
- Keith CarradineAmerican actor and singer
Other Taurus Horse charts
- JaySouth Korean-American singer and rapper
- Paul GeorgeAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Zach EdeyCanadian basketball player (born 2002)
- Jordan HawkinsAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
Other Gilded Lightkeepers
- Jeff WorleyAmerican writer (b.1947)
- Roger ZelaznyU.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet
- Amal El-MohtarCanadian poet and speculative fiction writer
- David WingroveBritish writer
Famous people with Life Path 11
- Melissa FumeroAmerican actress
- Chloe KimAmerican snowboarder
- Issey MiyakeJapanese fashion designer
From the journal: Chinese zodiac hours and your birth hour animal · Astrology vs astronomy: when and why they separated
Yasushi’s cards
Computed from May 20, 1930. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JudgementAsterNym identity card
The Gilded LightkeeperWestern zodiac
TaurusChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
11 · Visionary♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yasushi’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q376396 (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 Harry Pot for Anefo ]], CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yasushi Nagao at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yasushi Nagao.
Quick answers about Yasushi Nagao’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Yasushi Nagao?
- Yasushi Nagao was a Taurus: born May 20, 1930, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
- What was Yasushi Nagao's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 20, 1930 birth.
- What was Yasushi Nagao's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Yasushi Nagao's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Yasushi Nagao's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Yasushi Nagao's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury; 3 major aspects). Mars is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
