Friday, November 28, 2008

"celebrate the knowledge of a dangerous, crazy father"

    Reader Kat has emailed me yesterday this photo of her husband's back:

    tattoo_shi1shou4wei1kuang2fu4

    He got it done four years ago and the characters should be Knowledge, Loyalty, Courage, Warrior, & Father.

    Since Alan just got back from Japan, I forwarded this to him. Here is what Alan concludes:

    Besides the terrible calligraphy, the character is missing a dot at the upper right-hand corner. Also, the stroke at the bottom center of 寿 is supposed to be a separate dot rather than the incorrect connected stroke pointing down and to the right that we see.

    Anyway, the characters mean roughly as follows:
    knowledge, consciousness
    寿 congratulations, celebration, long life, sushi
    danger, dangerous
    crazy, insane, mad
    father

    Is this supposed to mean "celebrate the knowledge of a dangerous, crazy father" or something?

    I don't get the whole picture but it doesn't sound very complementary to the "father." The characters do not seem to mean anything like they think they do.

Mirrored Death

Sunday, November 9, 2008

"Spiritual Strength"

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Bushido Virtues Lost

"Prostitute"

    This photo's caption says "My girl's 'Bitch' tattoo. So fitting"


    http://www.checkoutmyink.com/tattoos/grampagravity/bitch-2

    However, means "prostitute".

    Why would anyone want that to be displayed on their body?

    Even so, she should at least tattoo a price list underneath. It is so hard (no pun intended) to haggle, when all the blood has left the brain and gone into the boner.

Tit for Tat