Let's deepen the understanding of the mistake of the kanji tattoo.

1. Reversed kanji symbols

I surmise that this is the result of probably having reversed the character when the paper pattern of kanji is transferred by skin.

The direction where each kanji is correct is published next to the image.

Look at a left photograph.

This is kanji of the Japanese calligraphy that I wrote.
This is called "Mirror-writing" in Japanese.
The mirror-writing has a particular meaning.

And, This kanji is "Horse".

The pronunciation in the Japanese of this kanji is "uma".
This is called "Sakasa-uma[=Inverted horse]" or "Hidari-uma[=The horse which was turned to the left]".
I wrote this "Horse" by intention by the mirror image penmanship.
This Horse of the mirror-writing has the meaning of Business prosperity.

This is true "Mirror-writing".

This colored paper is displaying in a certain tavern.

The mirror letter which does not have a special meaning is only mistake.
So that, when you put the tattoo in your skin, I think that you had better understand "A meaning of the kanji and a right direction ".

Inverted horse.pdf

 

 

I made PDF so that this "kanji of a horse with the meaning of prosperity in business" could be used for a tattoo.
Use freely.

 

 

2. Kanji that the order is wrong though kanji is accurate.

All these are the letters which have been arranged by mistake.

Two characters that queue up horizontally.
The character of the right-side is small, and has bent.
This is Japanese. This words is a "sageness".

Is the word of two characters vertically arranged a word of China?
This isn't Japanese.
Or is this the tattoo of a character array without a meaning?

The tattoo of kanji which neither Japanese people nor Chinese people can understand. Will such a tattoo have the value?

Well, because it is sentences with which the hiragana is mixed, this is surely Japanese.

The meaning of sentences is a little strange.
This is like poor sentences like my English.

Look at it and the place of the mark of the red circle of the image.
There is strange space there.

It is mysterious space!

The sentence was strange, but, as for the contents, I corrected it a little because it was very wonderful.

Because Japanese people don't use the expression of such a frank love, I think that this is very wonderful.

 

 

The left image is a simple mistake of the hiragana.

And the image of the right side is a mistake by the arrangement of the letter.
The arrangement of the letter of the phrase of kanji has a meaning.

Especially in a Chinese language, all characters are kanji.
Random arrangement becomes the cause of not making a meaning.

 

 

3. Mistake of Japanese

 

 

These two are meaningless and very irresponsible Japanese.

About the words of the right side, I barely feel a meaning, but can't understand the words of the left at all.

Whose responsibility will these be?

I think that this is responsibility of a supplier selling a design of kanji.

I look down on a merchant selling groundless words such as these.

 

Please look at this. This is experiences of the men who failed in a kanji tattoo.

Oh. My. God. (Unbelievably bad kanji tattoos)

I just came across a blog called "Hanzi Smatter," which chronicles the butchering of Chinese and Japanese writing in the west.

Oh. My. God.

I can't stop repeating that over and over as I see some of the tattoos people have gotten. They're so horrible they're not funny.
Let's use this one for an example. It's no better or worse than any of the others, and that's what's so horrifying. It's really, really bad.

First we have an old character for "money." One of those big ancient coins, I think. Next, "fugu," "buku" which means "poisonous blowfish." absolutely nothing. Next, "a." (Just the sound "ah." No meaning whatsoever.) After that, "ouch." And finally, "love". Roughly translated, this means, "I'm a complete imbecile."　　　　　　　Read more

 

4. The mistake in the form of kanji

Surely these are simple mistakes.Thank you for reading till the last.
Damage is light if compared with a previous male.
But these are wrong tattoos, too.

I think that you should carefully choose the character if it is an important tattoo for you.

I showed only "Wrong tattoo" today. But it isn't only such a tattoo.A lot of wonderful tattoos exist, too.
I am going to feature "a wonderful tattoo" in the near future.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　by Hararie

A lot of kanji that shape is different exists in China kanji and Japan kanji.
Moreover, although form is alike, kanji with a completely different meaning exists, too.

 

I explain "Difference between a Chinese kanji and a Japanese kanji" today.

kanji came to Japan from China.
It is thousands of years ago.
Chinese is the language that only kanji is used for.
On the other hand, Japanese is a language having "kanji, a hiragana letter, katakana".

So that, it is natural even if there is a difference in "The directions and the meaning of a kanji of each country".

But, attention is necessary when a person with a little knowledge of the kanji uses kanji for a tattoo.
That is because many language in which the China kanji and a Japanese kanji have a completely different meaning exists.

Then, let's see some examples.

First, let's see "the example which form resembles" of "kanji of Japan and Chinese kanji."

These are the photographs and images that I saw on the web.

Japanese kanji

This is a character "Love" of accurate Japan kanji. This tattoo is very accurate and beautiful !

Chinese kanji

This is the character "love" of exact China kanji. This tattoo is very accurate and beautiful,too !

Chinese kanji

This is Chinese kanji, too. It seems that there is many kinds of form since the history of Chinese kanji is very old.

Japanese kanji

This is a character "Love" of accurate Japan kanji. This is a beautiful brush style typeface. But, this is a tattoo that had been reversed by mistake when the stencil was transcribed in the skin.

Then, let's see some words.

Explanation :
This is an example from which the word itself differs.
This is the example from which a meaning is completely different, although the form of kanji is alike.

It is serious if the hips are wiped with a letter !

 

Explanation :
This is the example from which a meaning is completely different, although the form of kanji is alike.

By the way, do you know "Mah-jong"?

It is this.

 

 

 

Explanation :
As for this, kanji to "Daughter" is different respectively.
kanji meaning a Japanese "daughter" is "mother and a senior married woman" in China.

You are troubled to this difference a little, don't you think?

But, about the words with such a difference, it is no problem as long as you understand a meaning of the kanji precisely.
"This is Japan kanji and a meaning is a daughter."

If you can understand in this way, it is OK! .....Is my English strange?

Explanation :
Although a little these have the similar form, it is kanji with a different meaning.

These seem to have the case that is sometimes used in the same meaning.

Very complicated!

 

Explanation :
Both are completely different things.

Do you know existence of the public bathhouse "Sen-to" in Japan?
"Sen-to" is divided into the hot water for males, and the hot water for women.
There were many families which did not have a bathroom in Japan of tens of years before.
Therefore old Japan had many public baths.

This is the door of "the hot water for women."

This is the door of "the hot water for men."

In a public bath, man and woman has such a large bathroom one by one each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because I can't use the bathing scene of the woman, I used an old picture. Sen-to of present Japan is almost the same as this. More modern than this. Well, what do they think when Chinese sees the character of "Men's bath" and "Ladies' bath"? "Are there possibly men's soup and women's soup in Japan?"

 

 

 

I'm sorry, I've digressed from the subject.

 

Explanation :
This is a troublesome example a little.
kanji is difficult, besides, because there are a lot of synonyms in them.

 

There are many kinds and many synonyms in kanji in this way.

Furthermore, there are "much kanji phrases with the same pronunciation" in Japanese.

If knowledge of kanji is poor, the big mistake may happen.

I feature "the mistake of the kanji tattoo" on the next time.

Thank you for reading till the last.

Rie Hara

She is my beloved daughter.

She is my daughter. She becomes 12 years old soon. She is learning Syodo from four years old.
It has won a lot of calligraphy exhibitions before though she is a child. She won "Prize" for the umpteenth time though she is still a child. It is no mean skill.
I should also practice hard. Otherwise, I will be outstripped by her in several years.
But, it is very glad as parents' feelings.

Please see the work of Japanese calligraphy (=Syodo).

 

This work is a member work of "Hokumon Syodokai" of Japan.This is being written by the style of type of "Reisyo-tai".

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　"北門書道会員展"

 

 

This is a work of popular calligraphy person "Souun Takeda" in Japan.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　武田双雲作品

 

 

This is a work of popular calligraphy person "Cyosyo Yabe" in Japan.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　"墨翔展２００８"

 

He is my teacher. A lot of calligraphy associations exist in Japan. His calligraphy association's name is "Kenshinn Syodokai". I belong in there.
He sometimes holds the exhibition of calligraphy, and, then, is selling the work.

He is my teacher of calligraphy.

He is a wonderful japanese calligrapher.
To reach at the level of him, I should practice more more.
He is always ardently guiding his apprentices in this way.
I am not young any longer.

"Look exactly."
"I might possibly will be to die tomorrow."

He jokes always like this.
However, it is not a joke sometime and it is likely to become it.
Because he is a senior citizen.
However, I want him to live long as much as possible.
Because I love him.