These are kanji symbols that express female professions.
In these, there are some occupations of a Japanese peculiar woman.
Moreover, there is actually occupations of men though it is a name like female professions.
These all are used as a noun.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of actress.pdf |
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Meaning : an actress
Pronunciation : joyu
Example :
June 20th is the birthday of Australian actress[=joyu] Nicole Kidman.
Note :
Two women of a right image are actress in Japan, and the woman in the photograph above is a great actress who represents Japan.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of saleswoman.pdf |
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Meaning :
a saleswoman;
a shopgirl;
Pronunciation :
jo-ten-in
Note :
This word is hardly used in present Japan.
It is degree that the senior citizen in Japan slightly uses.
The clerk is shown in present Japan in the word that doesn't distinguish the man and woman.
They are "Staff <;English is used>",
"Ten-in<;Japanese word>" etc.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of woman doctor.pdf |
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Meaning :
woman's doctor;
a woman doctor;
Pronunciation : joi
Example :
International Congress of the Medical Women's[=joi] International Association.
Note : Right Woman who wore the white robe is popular woman doctor television personality in Japan. She has a barbed tongue. But, she is popular in the character that frankly expresses things.
The Japanese is a race who doesn't want to speak the real intention clearly. The Japanese worries about the other person reactions very much.
The Japanese has psychology that wants to be "Good person" always.
Therefore, the Japanese likes the person who can clearly assert.
The Japanese is a race who has such a strange temperament.
The following two words have a similar shade of meaning.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of proprietress.pdf |
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Meaning :
the proprietress
Pronunciation :
onna-shujin
Example :
the mistress of the house;
the proprietress of the bar;
Note :
In Japan, the shade of meaning of this word as "Woman's owner" is strong.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of landlady.pdf |
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Meaning :
a landlady;
a mistress;
Pronunciation : okami
Note :
The difference of "onna-shujin" and "okami."
There is a slight difference between them.
"Okami" means the mistress of the Japanese-style-Hotel and the high-class Japanese-restaurant.
On the other hand,
"Mistress" is a noun used for the female owner in all of kinds of shops.
Look at two women on the right side.
The young woman is a young landlady of Japanese style hotel of Hot spring of Murasugi of Niigata Prefecture Niigata City in Japan.
A young landlady is expressed in "Waka-Okami" in Japan.
The woman of the middle age is Okami of famous, high-level restaurant "Senba-Kccho" in Japan.
Her shop closed the store a little ahead.
The cause is her "Desire for money".
She was earning money with a stopgap measure for the profit of the shop.
Those means are "Dish using guest's leftover", and "Falsification at the best-before date", etc.
But, her fraudulent sales were exposed to the Japanese citizen by the employee in her shop.
A right photograph is a scene for which she is apologizing to the people in Japan...by her lie cry.
Meaning :
a female impersonator in the kabuki theater.
Pronunciation : onna-gata
Example :
Bando Tamasaburo is an Japanese Kabuki actor who plays women's parts [=onna-gata].
Note :
It is actually a occupation of men though "[Onna-gata]" is a name like female professions.
The kabuki seems to have become active from "Edo period" of ancient Japan.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of female impersonator in the kabuki theater.pdf |
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A present kabuki is being performed only by the man though the female actor seems to have existed in Edo period.
Kabuki actor's wives do not request "Cooperation of housework and bringing up a child" from the husband.
Kabuki actor's men think only the improvement of the art of own kabuki.
And, kabuki actor's men seem sometimes to have an affair with women other than the wife.
Research of "Woman's expression and behavior" to act woman's role.
This is their "Reason for fling"
Still, kabuki actor's wives endure it.
It is the indescribably mysterious world.
By the way, kabuki actor's wife is called "Rien-no-tsuma".Man in right photograph is "Bando Tamasaburo" of typical kabuki actor in Japan.
These image and animation are "Female impersonator [=Onna-gata ]" that he all performs.
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Meaning : woman diver;
Woman who dives in sea, and has occupation that gathers shellfish and seaweed, etc
Pronunciation : Ama
Example : woman pearl diver
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Note :
The dive fishing by the woman has been done for hundreds of years in Japan.
A right picture is women divers in Japan of the antiquity.
Women divers do not use the oxygen cylinder etc.
They stop breathing and harvest the shellfish and the seaweed.
Time that they stop breathing is five minutes from about one minute.
Women divers's diving suits were clothes of a white cloth like the photograph comparatively until recently.
Present women divers wear the wet suit like the photograph.
| Japanese tattoo symbols of woman diver.pdf |
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But, the population of "Ama" of Japan is decreasing every year.
There are few successors of young Ama.
And, present Ama are aging.
Look at a right image.
Though such a situation, Ama that energetically puts on the wet suit by even aged every day still exists.
Wonderful !
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