Japanese Tattoos

Japanese tattoos are among the oldest styles of tattoos,most often, come in a mix of black-and-gray and colors One thing is that the subject matter is rooted in Japanese culture .The most popular subject matter featured in Japanese tattoos are Koi fish tattoos, geisha tattoos, dragons, samurai, and tiger tattoos.

Tattoo Meaning: wisdom, strength, force for good, wind/water

Japanese Koi Fish TattooTattoo Meaning: determination, strength, courage, desire for success, water

strong desire to succeed and become “something more”.

Japanese Style Phoenix TattooTattoo Meaning: rebirth, triumph, fire

Japanese Tiger TattooTattoo Meaning: strength, courage, protector against bad luck, evil spirits, and disease, wind

Japanese Foo Dog Tattoo Fu Dog TattooTattoo Meaning: protective, strong, courageous, good luck, heroism

Japanese Snake TattooTattoo Meaning: protection, wisdom, good luck, strength, and change

Japanese Skull TattooTattoo Meaning: life, death, change, reverence for dead/ ancestors,raditionally, the Japanese skull tattoo represents change, which makes sense as death is the greatest change man can experience.

Japanese flower tattoos have a wide variety of meaning and are a very important and highly valued design in traditional Japanese tattoo art. For the sake of convenience, we’ve included the information about Japanese flower tattoos in our Flower Tattoos section.

Hannya Mask Oni Mask TattooTattoo Meaning: good and evil, protectors, tricksters, demons