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一目の雲 — The Cloud at One Glance
Tokyo, 1935. A market reporter at the Miyako Shimbun, Goichi Hosoda — pen name Ichimoku Sanjin — prints a new line in the paper's market column. Years of hand calculation later it becomes 一目均衡表, Ichimoku Kinko Hyo: five lines and a cloud that show the market's balance at one glance. The song teaches the rule that still matters — above the cloud look to buy, below look to sell, inside keep your hands off — and why the cloud is a signal, not a promise.
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What the film explains
Who invented Ichimoku Kinko Hyo?
Goichi Hosoda (細田悟一, 1898–1982), a market-section journalist at the Tokyo newspaper Miyako Shimbun who wrote under the pen name Ichimoku Sanjin (一目山人). He first published the method in the paper's market column in 1935; the book 『一目均衡表』 that made it public followed in 1969.
What does Ichimoku Kinko Hyo mean?
Roughly “one-glance equilibrium chart”: one look at the chart should show whether buyers or sellers hold the balance.
What are the five Ichimoku lines?
Tenkan-sen (9-bar high+low midpoint), kijun-sen (26-bar midpoint), senkou span A (midpoint of tenkan and kijun, plotted 26 bars ahead), senkou span B (52-bar midpoint, plotted 26 ahead) and the chikou span (today's close plotted 26 bars back). The space between the two spans is the cloud (kumo).
Why 9, 26 and 52?
They are commonly explained as a week and a half, one month and two months of the old six-day Japanese trading week. Many traders keep them unchanged; they are a convention, not a law.
What is sanyaku kouten?
The “three signals turn good”: tenkan above kijun, price above the cloud, and the chikou span above the price of 26 bars ago. The mirror case, all three reversed, is sanyaku gyakuten. It is a signal, not a promise.
What the film teaches
The film is a memory aid, not the full reference. How each of the five lines is calculated, how to read the cloud's thickness and colour, the TK cross, chikou confirmation, sanyaku kouten and gyakuten, the common mistakes and Hosoda's three theories are all written up in the full guide: Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, explained (also in ไทย and 日本語).
Lyrics
| 日本語 | English |
|---|---|
| 千九百三十五年 東京 新聞の相場欄 | 1935 — Tokyo, a newspaper's market column |
| ひとりの記者が 新しい線を載せた | One reporter printed a brand-new line |
| 細田悟一 ペンネームは 一目山人 | Goichi Hosoda — pen name Ichimoku Sanjin |
| ひと目で 相場の釣り合いが見える表 | A chart that shows the market's balance at one glance |
| 都新聞 相場を追う記者 | Miyako Shimbun — a reporter chasing the market |
| 毎日の高値と安値を ノートに写す | Copying each day's high and low into his notebook |
| そろばんをはじく音が 部屋いっぱいに | The click of abacus beads fills the room |
| 延べ二千人の手 七年かけたと伝わる | Two thousand people's work over seven years, it is said |
| 高値と安値の まんなかが軸 | The midpoint of high and low is the axis |
| 平均じゃなくて 釣り合いの位置 | Not an average — the point of balance |
| 千九百六十九年 本になって | In 1969 it became a book |
| 一目均衡表 世に出た | Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō went out to the world |
| 雲の上なら 買い目線 | Above the cloud — look to buy |
| 雲の下なら 売り目線 | Below the cloud — look to sell |
| 雲の中では 手を出さず | Inside the cloud — keep your hands off |
| 三役好転 そろうまで待て | Wait until all three signals line up |
| 転換線 九本の 高値と安値のまんなか | Tenkan: the midpoint of the last 9 bars' high and low |
| 基準線 二十六本のまんなか 相場の背骨 | Kijun: the 26-bar midpoint — the market's backbone |
| 先行スパン1 二本の線のまんなかを | Span A: the midpoint of those two lines |
| 二十六本先へ 未来に置く | Placed 26 bars ahead, into the future |
| 先行スパン2 五十二本のまんなか | Span B: the 52-bar midpoint |
| これも二十六本先 二本のあいだが雲 | Also 26 ahead — the space between the two is the cloud |
| 遅行スパン 今日の終値を | Chikō span: today's close |
| 二十六本うしろへ 過去と比べる | Moved 26 bars back, to compare with the past |
| 九 二十六 五十二 昔は週六日 | 9, 26, 52 — back then the week had six trading days |
| 一週半 ひと月 ふた月と言われる | Said to mean a week and a half, one month, two months |
| 転換線が基準線を 上に抜けたら好転 | Tenkan crosses above kijun — a turn for the better |
| 雲が厚けりゃ壁は固い 薄けりゃ破られる | Thick cloud, a solid wall; thin cloud breaks |
| 二本のスパンが交わる そこがねじれ | Where the two spans cross — that's the twist |
| 流れが変わるかもしれない 時の目印 | A time mark where the trend may change |
| 遅行スパンが ローソク足の上なら追い風 | Chikō above the candles — the wind is at your back |
| 三つそろって三役好転 逆なら逆転 | All three together: sanyaku kōten — reversed: gyakuten |
| 雲の上なら 買い目線 | Above the cloud — look to buy |
| 雲の下なら 売り目線 | Below the cloud — look to sell |
| 雲の中では 手を出さず | Inside the cloud — keep your hands off |
| 三役好転 そろうまで待て | Wait until all three signals line up |
| 時間論 波動論 値幅観測論 | Time theory, wave theory, price-target theory |
| 線は五本でも 奥には三つの理論 | Five lines on top, three theories underneath |
| ありがとう 細田さん ひと目の知恵 | Thank you, Hosoda-san, for wisdom at one glance |
| 雲はサイン 約束じゃない | The cloud is a signal, not a promise |
How it was made
- Song — “一目の雲 — The Cloud at One Glance”, made with Suno on Ack Studio's account; Japanese lyrics and English translation written for this film.
- Stills — Dali, the studio's “ACK-EURO70” ink style crossed with Edo woodblock landscape prints (Juggernaut XL, ComfyUI, studio Windows GPU). Motion — MiniMax H3 image-to-video on the same GPU.
- Diagrams — every Ichimoku line, cloud and signal diagram is drawn by code from one synthetic price series, not generated.
- Edit and subtitles — Kubrick; lyric timing measured with a local speech model.
The newsroom scenes are a dramatization; Goichi Hosoda (1898–1982), the Miyako Shimbun, the 1935 first publication and the 1969 book are real, and the “2,000 people over seven years” figure is the traditional account (“it is said”). The 9/26/52 explanation is the common one, not a documented rule. Educational content, not financial advice — see Disclosure. Also from the studio: 堂島ローソク足, Il Mercante e il Numero d’Oro and The Tape Doesn't Lie.