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Interesting article on mistranslated kanji tattoos (it's a scanned magazine page, not a news or magazine website)
Glad I checked mine from a couple of different sources before having it done. My initial source was a Chinese dictinary published by Harvard. Don't remember the secondary sources. Only one person has ever tried to tell me that it was something different, and that was a 13-year-old kid (who insisted that he was fluent in Japanese, but he wasn't. Tried to tell me it meant "Water")
Next tattoo is in the design process...I've been trying to draw out somethign for a while, failing misterably. Devon and Drey were down at the Grove yesterday and the subject of tattoos came up, Devon was talking about drawing her own...and I asked if she might be willing to give a shot at drawing one for me. I told her what elements I wanted, and she started describing an idea that came to her mind from that...which was actually pretty much what I was trying to draw to begin with...so she said she'd give it a shot. Yay!
Interesting article on mistranslated kanji tattoos (it's a scanned magazine page, not a news or magazine website)
Glad I checked mine from a couple of different sources before having it done. My initial source was a Chinese dictinary published by Harvard. Don't remember the secondary sources. Only one person has ever tried to tell me that it was something different, and that was a 13-year-old kid (who insisted that he was fluent in Japanese, but he wasn't. Tried to tell me it meant "Water")
Next tattoo is in the design process...I've been trying to draw out somethign for a while, failing misterably. Devon and Drey were down at the Grove yesterday and the subject of tattoos came up, Devon was talking about drawing her own...and I asked if she might be willing to give a shot at drawing one for me. I told her what elements I wanted, and she started describing an idea that came to her mind from that...which was actually pretty much what I was trying to draw to begin with...so she said she'd give it a shot. Yay!
