Literary and Military Arts (bunburyoudou)

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Here we offer 6 different hand-brushed Japanese Literary and Military Arts tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Literary and Military Arts 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.

Literary and Military Arts in Japanese is 文武両道 which is read bunburyoudou. The four-character idiom bunburyoudou signifies one who is skilled in both the "sword and the pen", that is, one who is skilled in both the martial arts and the literary arts. The archetype being Miyamoto Musashi who was Japan's greatest swordsman and also a master calligrapher. bunburyoudou is composed of the kanji 文 (read bun) meaning "art; literature", 武 (read bu) meaning "military; arms; chivalry", 両 (read ryou) meaning "both; two" and 道 (read dou) meaning "the way; teachings".

Translations You Can Trust: We want you to be as happy with the Japanese translation as you are with Master Takase's beautiful art. So we have made it easy to confirm the translation for yourself by simply clicking on Literary and Military Arts (bunburyoudou) which links to the independent Jeffrey's Japanese English Dictionary.

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Literary and Military Arts 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.