Japanese TattooThis Japanese tattoo features a beautifully colored phoenix as the designs main component. The phoenix is of symbolic importance to the Japanese, and is a much revered symbol, usually associated with various celestial elements, such as the stars and sun. The Japanese tattoo designs usually like to entwine the phoenix with the dragon, as you can see on many of their tattoos. This also symbolizes yin and yang for the Japanese, mixing the male and female symbols in an interlocking pattern. Now, this Japanese tattoo doesn’t mingle these two elements but I think that if the artist had it would have been an even more spectacular design. I would have included the dragon locked into fierce combat with this mythical bird. That would have been really cool. But, one component that this Japanese tattoo did incorporate was the cherry blossom. From the symbolism of these two elements, I interpret this tattoo to mean one who has fallen but has since risen from the ashes of their own defeat. A nice sentiment for a nice tattoo and one that’s representative of most Japanese tattoos.
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