Warrior (musha)

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Here we offer 6 different hand-brushed Japanese Warrior tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Warrior 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.

Warrior in Japanese is 武者 which is read musha. The Japanese word musha meaning "Warrior" is composed of the kanji 武 (read mu) meaning "Warrior; Military" and 者 (read sha) meaning "Person". The first kanji 武 is the same kanji used in Way of the Warrior (bushidou) and so musha implies a warrior in the Bushido tradition.

Incidently, musha is the same kanji used in the title of Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha meaning "Shadow Warrior".

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 Warrior (musha) which links to the independent Jeffrey's Japanese English Dictionary.

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Warrior 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.