Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Skull Sleeve Tattoos And Japanese Sleeve Tattoos

By Darren Hartley


Available in an avalanche of styles and colors, skull sleeve tattoos can be awesome and perfect tattoos for both sexes. They are the choice of tattoo enthusiasts in the lookout for unique and cool body ink art designs. In their ability to display very prominent skull images, they offer unique hallmarks to tattoo wearers.

Awesome skull sleeve tattoos are easily seen by everybody. This is probably why tattoo lovers who want to show off their tattoos choose this type of body art. And because they add to the masculinity factor, they are often preferred by men than women. The skull is a very popular tattoo symbol because integrating them with other appropriate tattoo symbols poses no problem at all.

Skull sleeve tattoos portray the skull image as a universally and terribly flexible symbol. The skull could either be depicted as fierce or evil or as elegant and charming. When incorporated with other symbols, they can develop a theme all their own.

Japanese sleeve tattoos are almost reproductions of famed Japanese paintings. It is this quality of Japanese tattoos from which they get their uniqueness. They easily put the art of body painting on a pedestal all its own. Other than this, Japanese tattoo designs carry different symbolisms unique to each and every individual design.

When incorporated in Japanese sleeve tattoos, the Sakura or cherry blossom is looked at as a life representative. Luck is what a Koi fish tattoo brings to its wearer. Strength coming from supernatural powers is what Japanese dragon tattoos expresses. Good luck is what a wearer of a Hannya mask tattoo brings to his surroundings.

Japanese sleeve tattoos containing the Hannya mask imagery do not have anything directly to do with Satan or the devil, contrary to popular opinion. Hannyas are terrestrial monsters with confused human feelings of passion, jealousy and hate. In Japanese theater, the mask is used to represent possession by the devil, release from which is a matter of devotion to Buddha. This is the concept of hell in Japanese Buddhism.




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