Tuesday, January 24, 2006

"Knife Through Loss"


http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A60123/high/bmepb211706.jpg

This untitled submission to BMEzine.com's kanji tattoo gallery only had caption of "Tattoo done on Ian. by Tracie at MARKED FOR LIFE. Ossett. West Yorkshire."

The first character appears to be 刀 (knife). The next two 通过 means "pass through". The last two 损失 is "loss".

The faux-brush calligraphy is terrible.


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6 comments:

  1. 羽之助January 24, 2006 at 5:20 PM

    Dammit, Tian, I was eating my breakfast when I saw this one. Could you at least put a warning at the top? Like, a negative score based on grammatical incorrectness, calligraphy work, mixing of Chinese and Japanese, and just plain having one. Heh.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2006 at 7:12 PM

    I think that first one is meant to be the simplified 萬, and the last one 尖. Doesn't make any sense, but mweh.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2006 at 9:29 PM

    And to think that the ugly thing is permanent. Good lord!

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  4. Cosmic OceanJanuary 25, 2006 at 2:36 AM

    Well, he certainly is Marked For Life...appropriately to reflect his ignorance.

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  5. DarkToriJanuary 25, 2006 at 9:57 AM

    I think this is supposed to mean "the power to pass through loss." There are several body shops that I have visited that have the knife kanji labelled "power"

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2006 at 1:53 PM

    ain't no cover up for that!!! that had to take along time and alot of money, and on the sternum?? ha, that guy really did suffer for his ignorance. geez.....

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