June 2009Archive

Today when it is 3rd time, I introduce "The kanji phrase expressing justice and equality."

Japanese tattoo symbols of Komei-seidai.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Fairly,
open and fair,
Fair and justice,
fairness and justice,

Pronunciation : ko-mei-sei-dai

Note :
The concept that things are judged and coped with without personal feelings with justice.

A state without injustice or secrecy.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Shinchi-Komei.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Honest and generous heart.
Spirit noble-minded like aureole of the Buddha.

Pronunciation : shin-chi-ko-mei

Note :
"Shin-chi" represent "the mind, spirit, and true intention."

"Ko-mei" represent "the light (aureole of the Buddha) which shines brightly."

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Gensei-Churitsu.pdf

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
The Justice that is protected strictly by "standpoint not biased and the viewpoint that are not partial."

Pronunciation : gen-sei-chu-ritsu

Note :
"Gen-sei" is a kanji idiom with the meaning that justice is protected severely.

"Chu-ritsu" is a kanji idiom with the meaning "neutrality."

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Mushi-Muhen.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Situation that fair judgment and action are made without giving priority to individual profits and honor.

Situation that impartial action is taken without thinking about own profit.

Pronunciation : mu-shi-mu-hen

Note :
In this kanji idiom, the kanji "shi" has the meaning of "egocentric action."

In this kanji idiom, the kanji "hen" has the meaning of "Biased judgment."

And, kanji of "mu" is kanji symbol with the meaning to deny these.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Fuhen-Futo.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Fairness / a neutral viewpoint without joining both any kind of principles and the political party.

Pronunciation : fu-hen-fu-to

Note :
In this kanji idiom, the kanji "hen" has meaning of "Biased will and prejudice."

In this kanji idiom, the kanji "huhen" has meaning of "fairness."

And, the kanji "huto" has meaning of "Principle not to participate in companion and league."

 

Meaning :
Thought that it is necessary to judge things objectively and impartially.

Pronunciation : zeze-hihi

Meaning :
Principle that it is necessary to judge things objectively and impartially.

Pronunciation :
zeze-hihi-shugi

Pronunciation :
zeze-hihi-shugi

 

Note :

Japanese tattoo symbols of Zeze-Hihi.pdf

This word was spread by "Xunzi" who is a philosopher of China.
Xunzi is a philosopher and Confucianism person in China at the end of Warring States Period.

"It admits that the right thing is right. And it admits that it is not right that it is not right."

Such a principle is called "Zeze-Hihi-Shugi".

Japanese tattoo symbols of Zeze-Hihi-Shugi.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that all these kanji idioms are very suitable for the kanji tattoo.
These all are best kanji idioms for "Principle and policy".

I introduce Mencius's word at the end.

Meaning : Mind of pity and sympathy.

Pronunciation :
sokuin-no-kokoro

 

Note :
"Soku-in" is a word that means "pity and sympathy" for others.

"惻隠の情は仁の端なり"

This is the famous phrase which Mencius left.

<The spirit which understands the pain of people's mind and has the heart to be considerate  is a starting point of the eminent virtue which should be protected as a person.>

Mencius put such a meaning to this phrase.

It is a very wonderful and impressive phrase.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Sokuin-no-jo.pdf

These are kanji symbols expressing equality and "the principles about them".

Japanese tattoo symbols of Isshi-dojin.pdf

Meaning :
Ideology of idea that it is necessary to love everything equally without discrimination.
Ideology that it is necessary to do the same treatment without partiality for everyone.
Ideology which has affection equally to everybody irrespective of a status, a Academic background , friend and foe, etc.

Pronunciation : isshi-do-jin

Note :
"Isshi" has the meaning "It sees equally and treat".
"jin" has the meaning "Consideration, Sympathy and love."

Japanese tattoo symbols of kenai-mushi.pdf

Meaning :
Ideology without distinction of "Oneself and other people" that widely loves everyone.
This is thought of "Mozi" at Chinese Warring States Period.

Pronunciation : kenai-mushi

Note :
This is a thought of "Mozi" of the Chinese age of civil strife.

Mozi of philosopher in China. 　　Click !

 

 

"Kenai" has the meaning "It is necessary to love others as well as loving oneself."
The meaning of "Mushi" is "Without distinction with oneself and another person."

 

 

 

The following two Kanji idioms have the same meaning.

Meaning :
Ideology that people in the world are intimate like brothers and sisters.

This is the ideology "With sincerity and propriety, people all over the world can happily become like the brother.
Moreover, it is necessary to do so."

Pronunciation :
shikai-do-ho / shikai-kei-tei

Note :
"Shikai" has the meaning "the sea on all sides (world)."
"Do-ho" is "a countryman".
"Keitei" is "Brothers".

Japanese tattoo symbols of shikai-doho.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of shikai-teikei.pdf

 

Meaning :
The meaning that equivalent treatment is made to an enemy and an ally.

Ideology of doing equal treatment to "Other people whom a self has a grudge and hostility feeling towards " and "Oneself and an intimate partner".

Japanese tattoo symbols of onshin-byodo.pdf

Note :
Originally this is a Buddhistic term.

"If, ahead of the love and hate of an enemy and the friend, will agree without distinction entirely; and die a peaceful death similarly without all distinctions."

....This is the instruction of Buddhism.

 

It was very difficult for me to translate today's kanji word into English.

 

Thank you for reading to the last.

Hararie

These are kanji symbols expressing equality and "the principles about them".

By the request of readers, I feature the kanji symbols expressing "equal, fairness, and justice" in a total of 3 times.

 

Japan until about 30 years ago might have been "Country of inequality."

• The discrimination of "man and woman" in the society.
• Discrimination of pay by sex.
• Seniority system.
• Androcracy in the home.

Mostly is decreasing in present Japan.
In addition, Discrimination in "the social standing of a family" seems to have been in the infancy of my parents.

Japanese tattoo symbols of equality.pdf

Meaning : Equality

Pronunciation : byo-do

Example :
equal representation of voters in the legislature.

lead the fight for equality for all black Americans

 

Please let me first explain only one.

This kanji symbol appearing in the following images than this frequently has a meaning to call "principle".

The pronunciation of this kanji symbol is "shugi."

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of egalitarianism.pdf

 

 

Meaning : egalitarianism

Pronunciation : byo-do-shugi

 

 

Meaning :
Gender equality;
Equality between men and women;

Pronunciation : danjyo-byo-do

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of gender equality.pdf

Japanese tattoo symbols of philanthropism.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Philanthropism;
Philanthropy;

Pronunciation : hakuai-shugi

 

Meaning : Humanitarianism

Pronunciation : jindo-shugi

 

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of humanitarianism.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Humanism 1.pdf

 

 

Three kanji phrases of the following have the same meaning.

Meaning : Humanism

Pronunciation :
jin-bun-shugi

 

Meaning : Humanism

Pronunciation :
ningen-shugi

 

Meaning : Humanism

Pronunciation :
ningen-shijo-shugi

Note :
In these three, this is the kanji phrase by which the meaning is strengthened most.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Humanism 2.pdf

Japanese tattoo symbols of Humanism 3.pdf

 

I collected kanji phrases concerning the family.

Stencil for tattoo of family of Kanji.pdf

 

The word concerning the family is unexpectedly few.
No, there may be much it.

Do you wonder that this remark of mine is prediction-like?
In fact, there is a reason in it.
It is because an idiom can be made infinitely theoretically by putting the noun of a noun "family" and others together.
The idiom about a family is made from such a reason by "a situation and necessity" in many cases.
But, they might become idioms with a strange impression as Japanese when made at random.

Please keep that in mind.

 

Now, I am going to perform the special feature of "the kanji idiom related to a family" in a total of 3 times.

I made a list.
These are all the three times schedule of "the kanji phrase concerning the family" which I am going to introduce to readers.

 

Today of the third times, I introduce "the kanji phrase to 18-25 of the schedule".

	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Japanese	冒険 家族	美食 家族	野菜 家族	健康 家族	熱血 家族	動物 家族	旅好き 家族	[Family name] 一家
Family's intention and taste	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Family's tendency					Yes
Family's state					Yes
Thought and hope to a family				Yes
Intention for family/ Way of thinking for family

 

These are the characters of the kanji idiom that I introduce today.

• kanji symbol expressing "Your family's intention and taste."
• kanji symbol expressing "Your family's tendency."
• kanji symbol expressing "Your family's state."
• kanji symbol expressing "Thought and hope to a family of you."

 

"Kazoku" included in most of these kanji phrases is the Japanese of the meaning called "the family".

Moreover, "kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings.

In Japanese, "kazoku" and "ikka" are used according to the situation.
But the definition of the proper use is very ambiguous.
Even if either is used, it might not be a mistake in many cases.
Japanese has many such words.

Meaning :
an adventure family;
an adventurer family;
a venture family

Pronunciation :
Bo-ken-kazoku;
Bo-ken-ikka;

Appendix:
Such facilities are in Japan.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Adventure family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Adventure family 2.pdf

This is an establishment in Hirafu, Kutchan-cho, Abuta-gun, Hokkaido.

In this establishment, I can learn contact with nature.And, various experience place that can't be experienced in daily life are here.
This is a very wonderful establishment to beable to enjoy regardless of age.

 

This seems to be a multipurpose hall.

This is a bedroom. The door that partitions the room is called "Sho-ji". Bedding is called "Huton." It is covered with the "Rectangular board made from straw" with which the floor of this room is called "Tatami."

 

	Probably, this is supper. Please look on the left of this photograph. This is "Sukiyaki." Though sukiyaki is originally made in a large pan, such a small pan is attached to every person's meal in accommodations.		This small pan is made from thick paper. Small solid fuel is put under this pan and it is ignited. But the pan made of this paper does not burn. Moreover, soup in the pan doesn't leak either.

 

Well, this establishment has various experience courses.
I introduce some of the experience course to you.

< Raft descent >		< Hiking in clear stream >
It starts with the work which makes a raft from a tire tube, a board, and a bamboo. The rescue in the ropework and the river etc. are learnt. The participants jump into the river and swim. Everybody looks very happy.		Nature observation by the walk in the swamp which is low temperature is performed in the summer. This is the hiking that "the source of a river springing out of the foot of Yo-tei-zan" becomes the aim. Encounter with the kingfisher seems to be very lucky.

	< Mud hot water experience >
	In the forest which walked the mountain path for about around 20 minutes, there is a marsh of circumference 500m. This is a natural hot spring of sulfur. Because Hokkaido is a geological feature with many volcanic ashes, skin seems to become beautiful by this mud.

 

 

 

 

The natural life experience establishment
Bouken Kazoku

145-2 Hirafu Kutchan-cho Abuta-gun Hokkaido 0440077

info@bouken-kazoku.com

 

 

 

 

< Raft descent >

Charge	One person 4.000 yen
Period	From the middle of June to August
Place	Shiribetsu river in Hokkaido
Experience hours	3 hours
Number limit	4 or more persons, More than 10 years old.

 

< Hiking in clear stream >

Charge	One person 4.000 yen
Period	From June to September
Place	The Yo-tei foot of a mountain of Hokkaido
Experience hours	2 hours
Number limit	2 or more persons

 

< Mud hot water experience >

Charge	One person 4.000 yen
Period	From the middle of June to August
Place	Shiribetsu river in Hokkaido
Experience hours	3 hours
Number limit	4 or more persons, More than 10 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings.

Meaning :
Epicure family;
Dainty food family;
Family who likes delicious food;
Family who likes nice food;
Gourmet family;

Pronunciation :
bishoku-kazoku;
bishoku-ikka

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Epicure family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Epicure family 2.pdf

 

<野菜家族>
I'm sorry !!!
This kanji phrase is my mistake.

Because it turned out that the food of the same brand name existed in Japan, I discontinue this introduction though this kanji phrase was a meaning of "Vegetarian".

 

"kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings.

Meaning :
Healthy family;
Health-oriented family;
The family who lives a healthy life;

Pronunciation :
kenko-kazoku;
kenko-ikka

 

 

Note :
This kanji phrase as well as "Yasai-kazoku" is often used for Japanese health food etc. as a brand name.
But, in the case of this kanji phrase, there is not the sense of incongruity even if used for a kanji tattoo.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Healthy family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Healthy family 2.pdf

 

 

"kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings.

Meaning:
Gung-ho family;
Fiery spirit family;

Pronunciation :
nekketsu-kazoku;
nekketsu-ikka

Note :
This is kanji phrase that shows "Family who works on things in passion".

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Gung-ho family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Gung-ho family 2.pdf

 

"kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings.

Meaning :
Family who loves animals;
Families who live with many animal;
an animal's favorite family

Pronunciation :
do-butsu-kazoku;
do-butsu-ikka;.

 

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Family who loves animals.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Family who loves animals 2.pdf

"kazoku" and "ikka" are the same meanings

Meaning:
Family who likes travel;
Family who likes a trip very much;
Family who travels frequently;

Pronunciation : tabi-zuki-kazoku;
tabi-zuki-ikka;

 

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Family who likes travel.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Family who likes travel 2.pdf

 

The family name "Smith" is used for this PDF as an example.

Meaning: One's family's name

Pronunciation :
One's family's name-ikka
[The pronunciation of the kanji sign of PDF is "Sumisu-ikka."]

Japanese tattoo symbols of The Smith family.pdf

Note :
Although it is said that the most numerous family name is "Smith" among U.S. family names, "The Smith family" is expressed in Japanese as the "寿美須一家."
The kanji symbols showing "Smith" can be made variously besides this.

"州魅栖", "諏実洲" ,"簾御笥"....etc.

Moreover, it is common that "ikka" is used about this "One's family's name."
It is rare that "kazoku" is used.

About the reason, it is unknown.

The Japanese idiom has many "synonyms."

 

I collected kanji phrases concerning the family.

Stencil for tattoo of family of Kanji.pdf

 

The word concerning the family is unexpectedly few.
But, it is likely to exist a lot about the idiom.

Do you wonder that this remark of mine is prediction-like?
In fact, there is a reason in it.

It is because an idiom can be made infinitely theoretically by putting the noun of a noun "family" and others together.

But, they might become idioms with a strange impression as Japanese when made at random.

Please keep that in mind.

 

Now, I am going to perform the special feature of "the kanji idiom related to a family" in a total of 3 times.

I made a list.
These are all the three times schedule of "the kanji phrase concerning the family" which I am going to introduce to readers.

 

<The second time>

	9	10	11	12	13
Japanese	三人 家族	大家族	陽気な 大家族	しあわせ 家族	仲良し 家族
Family's intention and taste
Family's tendency			Yes		Yes
Family's state	Yse	Yes		Yes	Yes
Thought and hope to a family		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Intention for family/ Way of thinking for family

 

	14	15	16
Japanese	ふれあい 家族	友達 家族	ほのぼの 家族
Family's intention and taste
Family's tendency	Yes	Yes	Yes
Family's state		Yes	Yes
Thought and hope to a family	Yes
Intention for family/ Way of thinking for family

 

 

kanji symbol which I introduce to readers this time has the following nature.

Moreover, About the nature that each kanji symbol has, please refer to a list.

• kanji symbol expressing "Your family's tendency."
• kanji symbol expressing "Your family's state."
• kanji symbol expressing "Thought and hope to a family of you."

 

"Kazoku" included in most of these kanji phrases is Japanese of the meaning called "the family".

Well, please let me explain the first four kanji phrases.

Please look at a left image.

"The number of families" is put in the circle, and it is expressed how many families it is.

My English is always poor.
I'm sorry.

 

Meaning :
Three-people family
Pronunciation
san-nin-kazoku

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Three-people family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Four-people family.pdf

 

Meaning :
Four-people family
Pronunciation
yo-nin-kazoku

 

 

Meaning :
Five-people family
Pronunciation
go-nin-kazoku

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of Five-people family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Six-people family.pdf

Meaning :
Six-people family
Pronunciation :
roku-nin-kazoku

 

Meaning :
a big family;
a large family;
a extended family;

Pronunciation : dai-kazoku

Note:

<The definition of the big family in the Japanese>

Japanese tattoo symbols of Big family.pdf

Though word "Big family" is always used in Japan, the formal definition seems not to exist.
In general, the concept of pairing with "Nuclear family" is "Extended family."

These are scientific terms that the social anthropologist named Murdoch advocated for the classification of the family form.

Although small family　as an alias of a nuclear family, and big family as an alias of an extended family may be used, It seems that it has a gap to the meaning of the extended family of an everyday language of Japan.

According to Takashi Aoki of the Japanese TV commentator, "The family of a lot of people only in parents and a child" who does not have a grandpa grandma is a definition of an extended family.

The ordinary Japanese seems to have such a sense.

Then, How many families will "a big family" be?

In Japan, The family who exceeds six person seems to be called a big family.

Well, In the census of Japan of 2000, the following results are shown.

The size of a family	The number of household
7	594,352
8	144,907
9	27,856
10	9,067

 

Meaning :
Cheerful large family;
A cheerful big family;
A cheerful extended family;
Large family merry;

Japanese tattoo symbols of Cheerful large family.pdf

Pronunciation : yo-ki-na-dai-kazoku

Note :
The Japanese "family having a lot of children" is such a family.
The child is existence such as "the treasure" for a parent !

In Japan, the number of children is decreasing year by year.
Politics of Japan uses only few budgets for the support for "child-rearing."
For it, tax payers decrease, and the finance of the country is turning worse.
And, politicians in Japan are doing a lot of luxuries.

All politicians in Japan are fools !!

The Japanese is enduring it though it is afflicted by misgovernment like this.
The reason ... Probably, they are racial traits peculiar to Japanese people.

 

The structure of the following six phrases may be expression peculiar to Japan.

It is because the word for describing a "family" has form like a "noun."

Therefore, if the word for describing a "family" is used, it will be possible to make various "idioms showing a family" besides these.
But, let's keep in mind that "the phrase that Japanese people smile wryly" may be made in that case.

Meaning :

a happy family;
happy Family relationships;

Pronunciation :
shiawase-kazoku

Japanese tattoo symbols of Happy family.pdf		Japanese tattoo symbols of Family with harmonious relationships.pdf

Pronunciation : nakayoshi-kazoku

Meaning :
family with harmonious relationships;
a peaceful family;
a family with sufficient relations;
a family whose relations are good;

Meaning : a family with dense contact; a contact family; a family with the contact of the heart; a family who has touch of mind; a family with close touch;

Pronunciation : fureai-kazoku

Japanese tattoo symbols of Family with dense contact.pdf

	Meaning : a family like friends; a family with relations like friends; a friend family; companionate family;
Pronunciation : tomodachi-kazoku
Japanese tattoo symbols of Family like a friend.pdf   Japanese tattoo symbols of Heart-warming family.pdf
Meaning : Heart-warming family, a family with tender relations, family who has calm relation, Pronunciation : honobono-kazoku

I collected kanji phrases concerning the family.

Stencil for tattoo of family of Kanji.pdf

 

The word concerning the family is unexpectedly few.
But, it is likely to exist a lot about the idiom.

Do you wonder that this remark of mine is prediction-like?
In fact, there is a reason in it.

It is because an idiom can be made infinitely theoretically by putting the noun of a noun "family" and others together.

But, they might become idioms with a strange impression as Japanese when made at random.

Please keep that in mind.

 

Now, I am going to perform the special feature of "the kanji idiom related to a family" in a total of 3 times.

I made a list.
These are all the three times schedule of "the kanji phrase concerning the family" which I am going to introduce to readers.

 

<The first time>

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Japanese	家族愛	家族 主義	家族 の和	家族の 調和	家内 安全	家族の 笑顔	家族 の絆	一家 団欒
Family's intention and taste
Family's tendency
Family's state
Thought and hope to a family	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes		Yes
Intention for family/ Way of thinking for family	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

 

 

These are the kanji language to which the following items are mainly expressed.

• kanji symbol expressing "Thought and hope to a family of you."
• kanji symbol expressing "Intention for your family."
• kanji symbol expressing "A way of thinking for your family."

 

"Kazoku" included in most of these kanji phrases is the Japanese of the meaning called "the family".

Meaning :

Japanese tattoo symbols of Family love.pdf

Family love;
Love between families;
Own love to family

Pronunciation : kazoku-ai

Note:
This kanji word has wide implication.

The love to your own family, the love to the family who lives in the distance, Sad love in the family, Big love that envelop family, Pretty love between brothers, Consideration of a grandchild for a grandma, Patience of the grandpa for a grandchild....etc.

"Kazoku-ai" is a word that applies to all love between families.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Familism.pdf

Meaning :
Familism

Pronunciation : kazoku-shugi

Note:
Familism: Concerning all the things, the principle which thinks of the family by priority.

I think the familism to be very good principles.
However, "the selfish family principle" is increasing in Japan in recent years.

The Japanese originally has ethnicity to consider cooperation with the other people carefully.
It may be Japanese peculiarity culture.
But, it is collapsing. Japanese with a selfish idea are increasing.
Children being brought up by selfish parents are very selfish and egocentric.

Probably they may be being unable to understand distinction of love and overprotection.

Japanese tattoo symbols of harmony between families-1.pdf

 

The following two Kanji idioms have the same meaning.

 

 

 

 

Meaning :
Harmony between families;
Cooperation between families;
Unity between families

Pronunciation : kazoku-no-wa

Meaning:
Harmony between families;
Cooperation between families;
Unity between families

Pronunciation : kazoku-no-cho-wa

Japanese tattoo symbols of harmony between families-2.pdf

Note :
A difference of these two kanji phrases is "Wa" and "Cho-wa".

和[=Wa]...harmony, unity

調和[=cho-wa]...harmony, balance

Thus, the meaning of these two kanji idioms is almost the same.
Supposing I mention these differences, "Wa" has a natural ring.
So that, "Kazoku-no-wa" has the ring a "Family who has a natural unity."

On the other hand, "Cho-wa" has a ring of "cooperating each other."
In addition, "Cho-wa" is words with a beautiful ring.

By the way, I like "Kazoku-no-Wa" personally.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of To pray for the happiness of the family.pdf

 

Meaning :
Japanese word to pray for the happiness of the family.

Pronunciation : kanai-anzen

Note :
Japan has the customs of performing three prayer in a shrine on the New Year's Day.
Those three wishes are "traffic safety, prosperity in business, and well-being of the family."

 

On New Year's Day, a large number of people go to pray at the shrine.

Yhis is Kaminarimon in Tokyo Asakusa.		This is Senso-ji in Tokyo Asakusa. It is a very elegant Shinto shrine.
This is Meiji-jingu in Tokyo. It is "The maximum Shinto shrine in Japan" in which the most a lot of Japanese gather in here for the New Year's visit to a shrine.		This is Senso-ji in Tokyo Asakusa. This is scenery of the New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine by the Japanese.

This customs of Japan is called "Hatsu-mo-de."

		This is a shops lining an arcade in Sensou-ji Temple in Tokyo Asakusa. In Senso-ji Temple, the people who finished a New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine do shopping here. This is a famous place that the foreigner tourist visits.
A lot of lucky charms are sold in the precincts.		Everybody looks very happy.

 

In the Japanese Shinto shrine, various lucky charms are sold.

This is a lucky charm called Japanese "Ema". In this "Ema", there is many kinds. Moreover, the wish for which it prays is also various.		This is a Sime-nawa. Shimenawa rope; in Shinto religion, a thick, twisted straw rope with stripes of white paper hung around a place to ward off evil spirits.
This is a charm of a temple called Shin-sho-ji[=新勝寺] of Narita-shi, Chiba.		This is the charm of a temple called Hoko-ji[=放光寺」 of Yamanashi Prefecture.

 

All these are lucky charms of the Shinto shrine to pray for the security of the family.

 

Japanese tattoo symbols of The smile of the family.pdf

 

Meaning:
Smile of the family;
Family's smile;
Family's smiling face;

Pronunciation : kazoku-no-egao

 

Meaning:
Family ties;
A family's bonds;
Bonds between families;

Pronunciation : kazoku-no-kizuna

Japanese tattoo symbols of Family ties.pdf

 

Note :
This is a very wonderful word.
In this "Kizuna", there is a meaning "Strong, hard affection".

I think that this is the phrase which was most suitable for the tattoo in the phrase which I introduced to you today.

This kanji idiom has beautiful ring so much.

 

 

Meaning:
a happy home;
close family atmosphere;
The meaning of passing a pleasant time while talking together with all families.

Japanese tattoo symbols of Happy home.pdf

Pronunciation : ikka-danran

Note :
"Ikka" means the family in Japanese.
The meaning of "Dan-ran" is "passing a pleasant time."

This kanji idiom has very warm ring.
When spending only a family's time, in Japan, this phrase is often used.

It is a warm, very wonderful phrase.

 

Thank you for reading till the last.

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