Novelist & translator
Haruki Murakami
Japanese novelist of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and a translator of Fitzgerald and Carver into Japanese. Born in Kyoto.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
- Born
- 1949-01-12, Kyoto, JapanA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Gemini
- Nationality
- Japan
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1949-01-12, Kyoto, Japan · time unknown, noon chart
Asia/Tokyothe zone used then
Asia/TokyoThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 21°35′ | Direct |
| Moon | Gemini | 15°09′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 8°49′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 28°26′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aquarius | 5°48′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 12°56′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Virgo | 5°35′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | 27°36′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Libra | 15°10′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 15°54′ | Retrograde |
Haruki Murakami is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Haruki Murakami was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.