息子 musuko Son

息子 is the everyday Japanese word for a son. For someone else's son, Japanese adds a polite ending, 息子さん (musuko-san). In casual slang the word can also mean a man's private parts, and that is worth knowing before a tattoo.

The Japanese word 息子 meaning "Son" is composed of the kanji 息 (read musu) meaning "son, breath, respiration" and 子 (read ko) meaning "child" or "children".

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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