Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara (born December 5, 1959, Hirosaki, Japan), aged 66, is a Japanese artist. Nara's honours include Time 100.
Yoshitomo Nara’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Pig, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Yoshitomo
Yoshitomo Nara’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
What Yoshitomo’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
11
Soul Urge · insight
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on Y (7) and closes on O (6). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 6: drive against care.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Yoshitomo’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Frost white · Rose-gold · Gold
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1959, 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 Yoshitomo apart
Yoshitomo Nara took the Time 100 in 2025, at 66.
The classrooms behind this chart: Aomori Prefectural Hirosaki High School and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
The working life starts in 1985, at 26.
The encyclopaedia's own shelving for Yoshitomo Nara: Japanese anti-war activists, People from Hirosaki and Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts alumni.
The same date carries Sajjan Jindal. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- Aomori Prefectural Hirosaki High School, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
- Awards
- Time 100 (2025)
- Working from
- 1985
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Languages
- English, German and Japanese
- Wikipedia editions
- 22
What the chart says
Yoshitomo, according to the stars
Core essence
Yoshitomo is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Yoshitomo is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Yoshitomo 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 Yoshitomo 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 Yoshitomo wants to be loved
Yoshitomo wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Yoshitomo gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Yoshitomo creates
How Yoshitomo makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Yoshitomo creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Yoshitomo 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 5 is the free spirit. Yoshitomo is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being fenced in, and being lied to. Mars in Sagittarius fights loud, laughs it off, and is genuinely fine ten minutes later. Yoshitomo 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 Yoshitomo's birth date. Working below.
Where Yoshitomo sits
Six lines
Yoshitomo’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 may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
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 feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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 Yoshitomo Nara
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hirosaki 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 Hirosaki that night
Computed for 40.60°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Hirosaki was Almach, in Andromeda, 86.9° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Sirius in Canis Major, and 108 catalog stars were up in all.
From 40.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −49.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Hirosaki on any night.
Sun 54° below the horizon, Moon up and 33% lit at first quarter.
How unusual Yoshitomo's chart is
Chart pattern score
68 / 100 · Unusual
3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Mercury · A bowl chart
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 →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunSays the quiet part loud.
Yoshitomo Nara's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 5, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Earth Pig
Earth PigTrusts easily. Rarely regrets it.
Yoshitomo Nara was born on December 5, 1959, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Yoshitomo Nara's birth date, December 5, 1959, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Yoshitomo’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Yoshitomo Nara's date-only chart is Saturn trine Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mars and Jupiter, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Yoshitomo Nara combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Yoshitomo’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 10° to 24° 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
stableSunconjunctionJupiter0.1° to 0.9° orb
Yoshitomo’s core identity and growth act as one.
stableSaturntrinePluto0.1° to 0.2° orb
Yoshitomo’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSaturnsextileNeptune1.6° orb
Yoshitomo’s discipline opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.8° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus2.7° to 2.9° orb
stableMarssquarePluto4.8° to 5.5° orb
stableSunsquarePluto5.6° to 6.6° orb
stableJupitersquarePluto6.5° to 6.7° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars6.9° to 7.4° orb
possibleMoonsquareMercuryorb from 0.0° to 12.8° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionUranusorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 12.0° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Yoshitomo’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 23°14′ (moves 0.03° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 28°29′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 29°36′ (moves 0.61° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 28°60′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 12°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Jupiter 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Sun 0.5°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.6°
- Ceres sextile Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 1.9°
- Hygiea square Mars 2.0°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.2°
- Eros sextile Venus 2.5°
Yoshitomo’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto7 pts
disposes Mercury, Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4 pts
in its own sign, Capricorn; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Yoshitomo’s chart
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mars, JupiterThree 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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.3°
- Venus semi-square Jupiter 0.6°
Born the same day as Yoshitomo
Sajjan Jindal was born on December 5, 1959 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from Hirosaki, at 40.6°N, nothing below −49.4° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Yoshitomo
Other photographers
- Gilbert King1962
- Anthony Suau1956
- Alexander McQueen1969
- Jamie Lee Curtis1958
- Anja Niedringhaus1965
- Michel duCille1956
Born in Japan
- Takahisa TakaharaJapanese businessman
- Kaoru KobayashiJapanese actor
- Glenn HowertonAmerican actor
- Masayoshi SonJapanese businessman
- Yasuhide UnoJapanese businessman
- Shigefumi MoriJapanese mathematician
More charts like Yoshitomo’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- SunghoonSouth Korean singer and figure skater
- SoobinSouth Korean rapper and singer
- Onyeka OkongwuAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
Born in Pig years
- Susanna ClarkeBritish author (1959-)
- Irvin KershnerAmerican film director
- John VarleyAmerican science fiction author
Also born on December 5
- Walt Disney1901
- Werner Heisenberg1901
- Conan Gray1998
- Lauren London1984
- Manish Malhotra1966
- John Rzeznik1965
Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Tyler HuntleyAmerican football player (born 1998)
- Robert HainseyAmerican football player
- Miles KillebrewAmerican football player (born 1993)
Other Sagittarius Pig charts
- Kristi NoemAmerican politician (born 1971)
- Rahm EmanuelAmerican politician (born 1959)
- Amy LocaneAmerican actress
- Emma CorrinBritish actor (born 1995)
Other Gilded Explorers
- Matt StonieAmerican competitive eater
- PrestonPlayzAmerican YouTuber
- Natalie ReynoldsAmerican model
- Lana Del ReyAmerican singer-songwriter
Famous people with Life Path 5
- William SchumanAmerican composer and arts administrator
- Dana PriestAmerican journalist
- Kevin PutsAmerican composer (born 1972)
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
Yoshitomo’s cards
Computed from December 5, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
5 · Explorer♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Yoshitomo’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q2015324 (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 Hsinhuei Chiou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Yoshitomo Nara at Wikipedia, yoshitomonara.com, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Yoshitomo Nara.
Quick answers about Yoshitomo Nara’s chart
- How old is Yoshitomo Nara?
- Yoshitomo Nara is 66 years old, born December 5, 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan.
- What zodiac sign is Yoshitomo Nara?
- Yoshitomo Nara is a Sagittarius: born December 5, 1959, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What is Yoshitomo Nara's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 5, 1959 birth.
- What is Yoshitomo Nara's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Yoshitomo Nara's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 23°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Yoshitomo Nara's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 12°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Yoshitomo Nara's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mars; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
