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If you are thinking of getting a tattoo, you have probably realized that tattoos of flowers and plants are the ones that favor the most, especially to a female body, although among boys they have also been carried for years. The shapes of the plants and their leaves adapt to the shapes of your body and give them volume, highlighting their beauty.
Cherry blossom is a very popular tattoo design because its flowers are beautiful and because it hides a wonderful story behind it that speaks of Japanese delicacy and tradition but also of war and samurai honor. If you want to know the meaning of cherry blossom tattoos keep reading this oneHOWTO article and discover all its secrets.
Cherry blossom tattoo as a meaning of femininity
The cherry blossom (in Japanese, sakura) represents in this country a metaphor about femininity. It is a delicate flower that blooms for a very short period of time and falls when the wind hits it. The distinctive thing about the other flowers is that the cherry blossom falls from the tree when it is at its peak, so you cannot see it wither. For the Japanese, sakura represents the qualities of female beauty: delicate, beautiful and ephemeral.
The cherry blossom tattoos They tend to look very good on girls with pale, white skin (such as redheads), because their skin tone matches the meaning of the flower.
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Cherry blossom tattoo as samurai emblem
One of the meanings of cherry blossom tattoos are related to samurai. The emblem of the samurai code (bushido) is the cherry blossom because for a samurai there was no better idea of death than to do it during a battle, that is, at its peak, instead of slowly withering away at home.
Samurai women, on the other hand, by losing their husband in battle were obliged to remain faithful to him. Many times they killed themselves (seppuku) in front of a cherry tree in honor of her husband.
Samurai warriors also carried out the seppuku when they broke their code (bushido) and did it under a cherry tree, planted in their house.
In fact, legend has it that in the beginning, cherry blossoms were always white, but due to these ritual suicides they absorbed the blood and turned pink.
This is why a cherry blossom tattoo also indicates the aspiration to a noble and intense life, full of ephemeral and beautiful moments. It also symbolizes the ability to live in the present, to take advantage of each day as if it were the last. By tattooing a cherry blossom you will carry with you the sign of the way of life of the ancient samurai warriors.
Love, another meaning of the cherry blossom tattoo
The cherry blossom tattoo symbolizes many things. Among their senses, the most beautiful has to do with a traditional Japanese ritual – where they worship that flower – but which is currently celebrated wherever there are cherry trees.
The flowering of the cherry tree is short and ephemeral. It lasts approximately two weeks, between the end of March and the beginning of April. During these days, people gather under the cherry trees to contemplate their beautiful flowers. And formerly, in Japan, these holidays (Hanami) were used to declare to women, since it was the only time when courtship was allowed.
Coinciding with the vernal equinox, the flowering of the cherry tree (and its observing ritual, Hanami) augurs the beginning of new couple relationships And for this reason, the tattoo of a cherry blossom is also a sign of fortune and prosperity in love.
Cherry blossom as a sign of the beauty of the ephemeral
In Japanese culture, the beauty of the soul can be seen through the beautiful things you do. For the Japanese, the moment of death and the way to do it have a lot of value, hence the ephemerality of the cherry blossom, its momentary beauty and its fall is valued.
If you also like small things and value beauty in details, you can tattoo a cherry blossom to indicate that you see what others do not see: the value of the little things, that are present for a moment and then disappear (the smile of a stranger, a man slowly walking his dog, who walks like him, the plastic bag of American Beauty...).
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