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nin
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM

The most significant character in the ninja kanji is NIN.

Its original Chinese meaning is patience, endurance, but in Japan NIN evolved into shinobi, meaning to hide, to sneak in. The kanji NIN gives us an unmistaken picture of what the Chinese and Japanese understand by patience: a blade upon the heart!

Ninja kanji.

It requires little effort to imagine how this kanji for patience expanded its meaning to hiding, remaining undiscovered. For the spying samurais of the feudal Japan it was a common reality they faced, that even at the risk of their lives, -a blade upon their heart-, they did not reveal their identity. For the modern ninja, the stress, aggression and violence of our modern world certainly act as a sharp blade on our heart.

The kanji NIN has two parts. In the upper part there is the blade; its left element has a long dot, as if it were a drop of blood dripping from the sword. The lower part is a heart.


Taken from: http://www.theartofcalligraphy.com/ninja-kanji.html

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just like a tattoo
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM

just like a tattoo... i'll always have you...

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