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Enter your name in kanji to discover the five kaku — the ancient Japanese art of reading destiny from the name.
Seimei Handan is the Japanese art of reading the name. Every kanji in surname and given name has a precise stroke count (kakusu), and their combination produces five values called kaku. Tenkaku, the sum of the surname strokes, represents ancestral inheritance and family imprint. Jinkaku, sum of the last surname kanji and the first given-name kanji, describes the core of personality and manifests mostly between twenty and forty. Chikaku, sum of given-name strokes, governs youth, talents and peer relationships. Sokaku is the overall total and indicates general life destiny. Gaikaku, computed by subtraction, tells how others perceive you. Each kaku is mapped to an archetypal number between 1 and 81, with yin or yang polarity and a fortune grade ranging from most favourable to most critical. ANIMUNDI accepts input in kanji, katakana and latin characters: latin letters are first transliterated to katakana and then converted to stroke counts using a standard reference table.
The origins of Seimei Handan intertwine with Kyusei kigaku, nine-star astrology, and with the Chinese onomantic tradition of Wu Ge. The modern form is credited to Kumasaki Kenou, who in the early decades of the 20th century codified the system in a manual that became very popular in Japan. Since then Seimei Handan has entered everyday culture: couples expecting a child commonly consult an onomantic practitioner before choosing a name, and entrepreneurs pick business names by tuning stroke counts. In Europe and the Americas interest grew alongside the spread of anime, manga and Japanese aesthetics, often as a complement to other personal-growth practices.
Seimei Handan (姓名判断) is the Japanese art of name analysis based on kanji stroke counts. A name is decomposed into five kaku to reveal character, talents and destiny tendencies.
The five kaku are Tenkaku (heaven, surname inheritance), Jinkaku (self, core personality), Chikaku (earth, youthful talents), Sokaku (total, overall destiny) and Gaikaku (external, social image). Each kaku yields a number with yin/yang polarity and a fortune grade.
Yes. A latin name is transliterated into katakana and then converted to stroke counts using the standard table. For maximum accuracy, input the name directly in kanji if you know it.
Yes. The calculator is entirely free and requires no sign-up. You only need surname and given name. Readings remain available within the current browser session.
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