Follow Your Heart (kokoro no mama)

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Here we offer 8 different hand-brushed Japanese Follow Your Heart tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Follow Your Heart 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.

Follow Your Heart in Japanese is 心の儘 which is read kokoro no mama. The Japanese phrase kokoro no mama meaning "Follow Your Heart" is composed of the kanji 心 (read kokoro) meaning "heart", the possessive grammatical element の (read no) and 儘 (read mama) meaning "as it is; as one likes".

kokoro no mama reminds us to be true to ourselves and to follow our heart.

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Follow Your Heart 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.

As soon as your order is placed, you can download your Japanese tattoo design. We also send you an email with instructions should you want to download the design in the future. 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.