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Rat

A rodent. Thin row: the only fetched attestation is a single bullet in a Japanese-style element list. Registered because the attestation is real and specific, at low confidence because one bullet is the whole of the evidence.
Thin
Low confidenceresearched

1 attested · 1 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
animal
Common themes
nature
Cultural flags
Japanese living tradition; routed to T11.10

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Japanese tattoo: a brief history and symbol meanings (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine

    Tattoo magazine style guide whose symbol list is the densest single-page motif-meaning evidence found for this batch. Verbatim: "Dragons, as symbols of wisdom and self-assurance, carp symbolizing courage, tigers as symbols of fearlessness, snakes as symbols of protection from misfortune and illness, peonies as symbols of wealth and prosperity, cherry blossoms as symbols of a warrior's short life and fleeting youth". Its bullet list adds "Koi carp swimming upstream - represents resilience and invincibility", "Tiger - symbolizes fearlessness", "Peony - represents life success", "Sakura (cherry blossom) - symbolizes sacrifice and obedience" and "Rat - represents fertility". IMPORTANT LIMIT: every claim here is JAPANESE-CONTEXT and describes a living tradition; each edge drawn from it is scoped to that context and flagged, and the tradition itself is T11.10's, not a motif node's.

    industry source · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingNatureThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_rat ('nature'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Can symbolize · 1

  • → outgoingFertilitySymbolThin
    strength 0.25needs cultural review

    JAPANESE CONTEXT ONLY, and weak: the entire evidence is the list item "Rat - represents fertility". Strength 0.25 records that this is a single unelaborated bullet, not a researched claim.