Life in Every Breath (hakuiki hitotsu ni mo seimei ga yadori)

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Here we offer 7 different hand-brushed Japanese Life in Every Breath tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Life in Every Breath 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.

Life in Every Breath in Japanese is 吐く息一つにも生命が宿り which is read hakuiki hitotsu ni mo seimei ga yadori. The Japanese phrase hakuiki hitotsu ni mo seimei ga yadori was made popular in the movie "The Last Samurai" and this is a direct quote.　The phrase is composed of the word 吐く息 (read hakuiki) meaning "one's breath", 一つ (read hitotsu) being a counter for "one". So this is "one breath". The grammatical element にも (read nimo) means "even in". So far we have the phrase hakuiki hitotsu nimo meaning "even in one breath", "in each breath" or "in every breath". The next word is 生命 (read seimei) meaning "one's life; one's existence" and が (read ga) is a grammatical element specifying the previous word as the subject of the verb. The verb yadori is the present form of 宿る (read yadoru) meaning to "to dwell; to exist within".

This poetic phrase captures the idea that one's entire life can come down to a single breath. This is the perfect gift for any fan of the movie "The Last Samurai" or a student of Bushido, The Way of the Warrior.

Immediately Download Your Tattoo Design

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Life in Every Breath 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 immediately 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.

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