Monday, May 2, 2005

"Central Ice"

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The top two characters usually means "central". In geographical term, there is an area just south and south-west of Tokyo that is called the same. In Japanese, would sometimes also represent the "heart", as the equivalent of "center".

The bottom character , despite it might look like a miswritten (long, perpetual, eternal, forever), it is actually the Japanese version of , which means "ice".

Hence the problem: does the tattoo suppose mean "central ice", "icy center", "Ice of Tokyo's South-West", or "cold hearted"?


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