modestmeow:
A photo my mom took in the 90’s
modestmeow:
feetsies
calleo:
momijinatsume:
calleo:
momijinatsume:
I got my third tattoo, and its the Japanese kanji for insane.
Aside from being upside down, anyone better at reading Japanese than I am know what this actually means (assuming it were done right side up and not as an upside down wrist tattoo)?
First of all, the tattoos are meant to be read the way that I had them tattooed on me.
The actual meanings are;
Left: Insane
Right: Love.
Learn Japanese, before you try, and judge something that you know nothing about.
You’re a horrible person, with no knowledge of culture.
They’re still upside down. Wrist tattoos with that orientation are ALWAYS upside down, even in Japanese. Always, there are no exceptions to that. If it were on a shirt and ‘facing you’ with the BS reason of “so I can see it” people would be asking you why your shirt had upside down writing on it.
Tattoos are the same in terms of orientation. And yours are upside down. Your artist is an ass for not telling you that, but that’s another topic altogether.
Second, that “insane” kanji one is more commonly used in Chinese, not Japanese and more commonly reads as ‘mad’ or ‘ill’, not ‘insane’. I suppose you could argue that mad and insane mean, for purposes of that translation, almost the same thing.
愛 is, indeed, love (as far as I can tell with my glasses off), albeit sloppily done, however, I wasn’t looking at that one. I rather wish I hadn’t, it just looks like bad handwriting now that I take a closer look.
As for culture, I’m not the white kid who had upside down, leopard print, just-on-the-edge of ‘correct’, not in context Japanese tattooed on my arms.
I have slightly more respect for that culture you apparently love so much than to just tattoo random, out of context, incorrectly oriented words on my white self. It’s also worth noting that I studied the Japanese language for nearly seven years.
I suggest you get
外人 for your next Japanese tattoo, it’d be fitting.
You’re really starting to piss me off, and don’t you ever, ever, everrr think you can get away with insulting my tattoo artist. He owns his own shop, and I would love you see you do that in your early twenties.
I have them written that way on purpose.
It’s so I can read them, and not you.
I also know damn well that they are correct, and you need to seriously grow the fuck up.
I too, have studied Japanese, since I was 11, and that would be almost 9 years ago.
It’s my life, my choice, and my body.
Fuck off.
calleo:
momijinatsume:
I got my third tattoo, and its the Japanese kanji for insane.
Aside from being upside down, anyone better at reading Japanese than I am know what this actually means (assuming it were done right side up and not as an upside down wrist tattoo)?
First of all, the tattoos are meant to be read the way that I had them tattooed on me.
The actual meanings are;
Left: Insane
Right: Love.
Learn Japanese, before you try, and judge something that you know nothing about.
You’re a horrible person, with no knowledge of culture.
<3!