The Japanese word shinkou means also means "Belief" or "Creed" and is composed of the kanji信 (read shin) meaning "faith, trust, believe" and 仰 (read kō) meaning "to depend, respect, seek". Faith (shinkou) specifically refers to religious faith.
Each design is Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase's hand-brushed calligraphy of the word or phrase on this page, delivered as a PDF you can print. Every PDF includes the line art, so a tattoo artist or a craftsperson can work from the outline as well as the brushed image.
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Also available as a hand-brushed Japanese scroll
Master Calligrapher Eri Takase creates each scroll personally, hand-brushed to order on traditional Japanese paper.