Sunday, September 13, 2009

I wanna find this tattoo artist and buy him a drink

Take a look at this picture and caption:
Samurai
While spending some time in Japan, I was lucky enough to get the kanji for "Dragon soul" tattooed on my arm at a studio in Tokyo. The artist helped me translate the phrase into kanji.
(Tokyo, JP)
(Picture from the gallery of kanji tattoos at http://www.bmeink.com/kanji001.html -- some pics may be NSFW)

Now take a closer look at this picture:
Does this say "dragon soul?" Nope. "Dragon soul" would be something like 「竜の魂」(and that's a wild guess; for all I know it could be wildly inaccurate).

One thing that I am sure of is that this tattoo says 外人. "Gaijin." It's the impolite word for "foreigner."

Heh.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Aym said...

ROTFLOL! Man, that must have sucked when he learned that...

September 14, 2009 10:48 AM  
Blogger Miklos said...

That is awesome. This probably happens a lot more than people think... at least I hope it does!

September 14, 2009 6:52 PM  

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