It Can't Be Helped (shiyou ga nai)

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Here we offer 5 different hand-brushed Japanese It Can't Be Helped tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these It Can't Be Helped 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.

It Can't Be Helped in Japanese is 仕様が無い which is read shiyou ga nai. The Japanese phrase shiyouganai is also commonly written shoganai and is composed of the word shiyou meaning "way; means" and nai meaning "not; no". This is a common expression that is used when there is nothing that can be done about something and that one should just accept what is.

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect It Can't Be Helped 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.