Sunday, April 3, 2011

What Do You Know About Japanese Kanji Symbols

By Takamitsu Hairi


Japanese artistry and inventiveness is evident in the Kanji symbols which are taken from different characters with great precision so that they can illustrate ideas and things exactly. These ideograms can be identified without a hitch as they are striking with their awesome artistic look.

Throughout the years, Kanji symbols have become the first option for all tattoo maniacs. Designing of Kanji symbols can be widely seen in ornaments like bangles, necklaces and earrings. Even the lanterns and wall hangings are adorned with Kanji symbols nowadays.

You can make use of Kanji symbols to create and express any idea that you would like. The construction of the script is however entirely different to that of English and hence one needs to understand how a certain word would come out in the kanji script.

Precaution is needed not to be lampooned as there are a large number of people who relied upon the outward appearance of these symbols and got themselves trapped. They tattooed, but found themselves shamefaced instead of conveying what they really wished.

You need to be able to understand the Japanese language to realize the meaning of each Kanji symbol. If not you are going to make the same mistake that some tattoo admirers made, believing the misconceptions of some non-native speakers and tattooing with symbols that made them signed with the identification marks of old age criminals.

Kanji symbols and the symbolism they exhibit hold a history of centuries. Kanji maestros of today are not tattoo specialists because they are just creating a beautiful piece of art out of these symbols and scripts.

The magnificence of the Kanji symbols is in the fact that they have carried on retaining their attraction throughout the ages. The establishment of Chinese characters into the Japanese language took place in the fifth century. These age old characters known as Kanji have retained their creative power up until today.

One more reason is there for the wide acceptance of this art - the depiction of the beauty of life. It has got an unexplainable appeal to the human sense. In other words, Kanji symbols are actually a embodiment of the human innovativeness.

It has been remarked that the roots of the kanji symbols that we see today are implanted in human experience. For example the kanji symbol for peace portrays an abstracted line drawing of a woman under a roof representing shelter. Amongst the most popular Kanji symbols is the one which reads "FUKU". This means fortune and comfortability. "Gaku" is another popular symbol which means happiness.




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