Book of Five Rings (gorin no sho)

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Here we offer 8 different hand-brushed Japanese Book of Five Rings tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Book of Five Rings tattoo designs the fonts are different, but the characters and the meaning are the same. So order the style you like - the meaning is the same for each design.

Book of Five Rings in Japanese is 五輪の書 which is read gorin no sho. The Japanese book gorin no sho translated as "Book of Five Rings" was written by Japan's preeminent swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. The book teaches the fundamentals of sword fighting and combat training. The kanji 五 (read go) means five 輪 (read rin) means "ring", the grammatical element の (read no) means "of" and 書 (read sho) means "book; writings". Note that one also sees gorin no sho written 五輪書 without the hiragana.

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Book of Five Rings in Japanese Tattoo. Your design comes as an Adobe PDF file which means it will print exactly as Master Takase brushed the design and, of course, it includes the line art (also called a stencil) which your tattoo artist must have to properly ink the design.

The Adobe PDF file completely documents the design and contains everything your tattoo artist needs to properly ink the design. Your tattoo artist does not need to know Japanese.