Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Symbolic Kanji Scripts

By Takamitsu Hairi


Japanese Kanji symbols are easily recognized due to their artistic look. These ideographical characters are made out of carefully selected marks that symbolize a whole idea or object. It is a highly expressive script that seems to have an strong artistic appeal.

Over the years the kanji script became a very popular choice for people interested in getting tattoos. The use of the script can also be seen in numerous other fashion items like lockets, necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Even interior decoration materials like lamps and wall hangings highlight Japanese Kanji symbols today.

Kanji symbols can get across any idea in a tempting way and that is why hundreds of people are interested in getting themselves tattooed with these symbols. But before selecting the suitable symbol, you should understand that they poles apart with the structure of English, hence awareness about the significance of these symbols is essential to choose the suitable one for you.

Yes, it is a truth that too much people have been meshed tattooing with the wrong symbols, trusting in their external meaning. At a later date, they came to know that those symbols didn't express what they wished, rather they had a blush-making sense which they never liked.

You need to be able to take in the Japanese language to comprehend the sense of every Kanji symbol. Otherwise you are going to make the same mistake that some tattoo maniacs made, believing the miscalculations of some non-native speakers and tattooing with symbols that made them labelled with the identification marks of old age criminals.

The history surrounding kanji symbols is extremely rich and also the symbolism that it carries. Not all Kanji specialists today are tattoo artists. Instead they take to the script as a means of fine art as they play with the script to compose a brilliant piece of art.

The fact that fifteen centuries have passed after the establishment of Chinese characters in Japanese language is a sufficient proof for the ancientness of Kanji symbols. Still this form of art has not lost its attraction and that is the real impressiveness of Kanji symbols - the unequalled record of attracting the masses for centuries.

These ideographical characters exactly manifest the beauty of life in the interesting use of marks. Kanji symbols seem to have a very humanitarian communicative appeal to the masses through their images. The fact that the kanji symbols were themselves a outcome of unspoiled human imagination is what gives them the timeless appeal.

It has been remarked that the roots of the kanji symbols that we see today are implanted in human experience. For instance 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 well being. "Gaku" is another popular symbol which signifies happiness.




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