鼠 nezumi Rat

鼠 is a rat or a mouse: Japanese uses one word for both. The word is usually written in kana, ねずみ or ネズミ, and this design writes the character. As a color, nezumi is a slate gray. For the zodiac sign, the design is 子年, Year of the Rat (nezumidoshi).

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. The line art prints sharp at any size. The brushed image is sized to print at the dimensions shown on the PDF, so for a larger piece, work from the line art.

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