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Koi tattoos are popular in both Japan and China. The colorful koi or carp have a lot of symbolic meaning in both countries. These large fish are often seen in ponds, interacting with the people watching them. Overall, koi are symbolic of good luck.
In Japan, koi represents the male energy. In fact, flags [...]

Kanji tattoos are very popular.
Just like the Japanese are fond of wearing English expressions, so too others have discovered a fascination with Japanese kanji. What many people don’t realize is that not all Japanese writing is kanji.
Kanji are the elaborate calligraphic symbols that depict ideas, rather than words. A rounded shorthand style of writing called [...]

Japanese tattoos have a long history stretching back to 10,000 B.C. From the very beginning, Japanese tattoo designs have been large and elaborate. Women of the Ainu tribe would tattoo themselves to resemble their goddess so disease-causing demons would be frightened away, thinking they were the goddess herself.
Between 300 BC and 300 AD, tattoos in [...]