Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi (born February 9, 1945, Fukuoka, Japan), aged 81, is a Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - ). Ohsumi's honours include Order of Culture, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Canada Gairdner International Award.
Yoshinori Ohsumi’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Wood Monkey, with Life Path 3 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Monkey, with 
Life Path 3 in numerology.Your match with Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Guardian
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 3 represents expression: words, art, humour and making inner experience visible.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 3, on the emotional plane.
What Yoshinori’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
3
Soul Urge · being heard
7
Personality · composed, private
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on I (9). The value it repeats most is 9, which numerology reads as empathy.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yoshinori’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌿 Fern
Violet · Ivory · Forest
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 1945, 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 Yoshinori apart
The Asahi Prize came in 2008, when Yoshinori Ohsumi was 63.
Study took Yoshinori Ohsumi to Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School and The Rockefeller University.
On the family side, Yoshinori Ohsumi was born to Yoshio Ōsumi and married Mariko Ōsumi.
Wikipedia files Yoshinori Ohsumi under Scientists from Fukuoka, Japanese cell biologists and Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Mia Farrow shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Fukuoka Prefectural Fukuoka High School, The Rockefeller University and University of Tokyo
- Awards
- International Prize for Biology (2015), Order of Culture (2016) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2016)
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 74
What the chart says
Yoshinori, according to the stars
Core essence
Yoshinori is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Yoshinori is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How Yoshinori wants to be loved
Yoshinori wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.
How Yoshinori creates
How Yoshinori makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Yoshinori creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Yoshinori is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 3 is the creative. Yoshinori is here to express, to make, to say the thing in a way nobody has said it before. Joy is the work: the writing, the performing, the making people laugh. The lesson is finishing what the spark started.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Yoshinori does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Yoshinori's birth date. Working below.
Where Yoshinori sits
Six lines
Yoshinori’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
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 Yoshinori Ohsumi
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Fukuoka 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 Fukuoka that night
Computed for 33.59°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Fukuoka at 9 p.m. that evening: Elnath of Taurus, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 102 catalog stars were up in all.
Fukuoka sits at 33.6°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −56.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Fukuoka on any night.
Sun 38° below the horizon, Moon down and 13% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Yoshinori's chart is
Chart pattern score
79 / 100 · Rare
Grand cross · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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 →Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
Yoshinori Ohsumi's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1945, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Wood Monkey
Wood MonkeyInventive, restless, funny.
Yoshinori Ohsumi was born on February 9, 1945, which falls in a Wood Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 3
Life Path 3The storyteller at the table.
Yoshinori Ohsumi's birth date, February 9, 1945, reduces to Life Path 3 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 3 means →What stands out in Yoshinori’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yoshinori Ohsumi's date-only chart is Mercury trine Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Yoshinori Ohsumi combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the emotional plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Guardian.
Yoshinori’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 26° to 9° Sagittarius or Capricorn 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
stableMoonoppositionSaturn0.0° to 8.0° orb
Yoshinori’s feelings pull against their discipline from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 1.1° orb
Yoshinori’s mind flows straight into their imagination.
stableMarstrineJupiter0.0° to 0.8° orb
Yoshinori’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableVenusoppositionNeptune0.1° to 1.1° orb
stableUranussextilePluto0.3° orb
stableMercurysextileVenus0.6° to 1.2° orb
stableVenustrinePluto1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableSaturnsquareNeptune1.7° to 1.8° orb
stableVenussquareSaturn1.8° to 2.8° orb
stableVenussextileUranus1.9° to 2.9° orb
stableMercuryoppositionPluto2.2° to 3.8° orb
stableMercurytrineUranus2.5° to 4.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal5 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Yoshinori’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Libra 2°54′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 6°09′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosTaurus 25°22′ (moves 0.81° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaCapricorn 17°48′ (moves 0.39° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 9°47′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Mercury 0.3°
- Eros trine Mars 0.6°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Uranus 0.7°
- Eros trine Jupiter 0.9°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Chiron square Saturn 1.5°
- Ceres trine Saturn 1.8°
- Ceres square Pluto 2.7°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.9°
Yoshinori’s dominant planets
1. ♅ Uranus9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus6 pts
disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Yoshinori’s chart
Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.- Kite · Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, PlutoA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
T-square onto Saturn · Venus, Neptune, SaturnAn 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.
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.6°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.1°
- Venus quintile Mars 1.2°
- Mercury quincunx Saturn 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.7°
- Mars sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.8°
Born the same day as Yoshinori
Mia Farrow was born on February 9, 1945 too, the same date and the same year. The Sun sign, year animal and Life Path are shared exactly. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Fukuoka sits at 33.6°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Yoshinori
Other biologists
- Michael W. Young1949
- André Lwoff1902
- Hamilton Smith1931
- Carol Greider1961
- Elizabeth Blackburn1948
- George Wells Beadle1903
Born in Japan
- Akira YoshinoJapanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
- Kagemasa KozukiJapanese industrialist
- Shigefumi MoriJapanese mathematician
- Yohji YamamotoJapanese fashion designer
- Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer
- Toshihide MaskawaJapanese theoretical physicist
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Born in Monkey years
- Chrissy MetzAmerican actress
- Craig T. NelsonAmerican actor and comedian (born 1944)
- Kailyn LowryAmerican television personality
Also born on February 9
- J. M. Coetzee1940
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- Sócrates1954
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Fellow Yin Earth day masters
- Charles NicolleFrench microbiologist
- Seán MacBrideIrish politician and human rights activist
- Roger GuilleminFrench-American neuroscientist
Other Aquarius Monkey charts
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- Mairead Maguirepeace activist (born 1944)
Other Steadfast Guardians
- Lance StrollCanadian and Belgian racing driver
- Xander SchauffeleAmerican professional golfer (born 1993)
- Dafne KeenSpanish-British actress (born 2005)
- Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-NassauMember of the Dutch royal family
Famous people with Life Path 3
- Reece JamesEnglish association football player (born 1999)
- Ozan KabakTurkish association football player (born 2000)
- William SalibaFrench footballer (born 2001)
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Yoshinori’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1945. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The WorldAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast GuardianWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
3 · Storyteller♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yoshinori’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8056214 (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 Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoshinori Ohsumi at Wikipedia.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yoshinori Ohsumi.
Quick answers about Yoshinori Ohsumi’s chart
- How old is Yoshinori Ohsumi?
- Yoshinori Ohsumi is 81 years old, born February 9, 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Yoshinori Ohsumi?
- Yoshinori Ohsumi is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1945, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1945 birth.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Life Path number?
- Life Path 3, calculated in numerology.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Libra at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Yoshinori Ohsumi's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 9°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yoshinori Ohsumi's dominant planet?
- Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
