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Temple

A temple building. Attested twice as drawn subject matter: a Japanese-style guide says “You’ll often see samurai warriors paired with temples as a way to tell a story about a brave and noble warrior who is ready to defend his honor and his people”, and an artist feature describes a piece “depicting a temple with Aphrodite”. NO SYMBOLIC EDGE. CULTURAL FLAG, and it is not decorative: a temple is a building of worship, and several living traditions are in scope for the word. The Shinto torii gate that appeared in a fetched fox article was refused outright for the same reason and routed to T11.10; 'temple' survives here only as a generic architectural form with the hazard written on the row.
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0 attested · 2 promoted2 sources · T2

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What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
architecture
Variants
classical temple; temple with figure
Common styles
fine line; blackwork
Cultural flags
A temple is a place of worship for living traditions. Registered as a generic architectural form with NO meaning edge; any tradition-specific temple (Shinto, Buddhist, Hindu) is T11.10's, not this node's.
Composition behaviors
paired with a figure

Provenance

2 resolved

  • Japanese Tattoos and Their Meanings (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo education page. Cited here for ONE architectural attestation only: "You’ll often see samurai warriors paired with temples as a way to tell a story about a brave and noble warrior who is ready to defend his honor and his people." The page's Japanese religious and mythological material is NOT drawn on here; it belongs to T11.10.

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30

  • "Architecture of the soul" in the works of tattoo artist Eternal (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine

    Tattoo magazine artist feature. Verbatim: "For over nine years, he has created amazing images that reflect his love for architectural forms and historical structures. His work focuses on ancient architecture, meticulously crafted using only lines without any play of light and shadow." Also names a specific piece: "One of his popular tattoos, depicting a temple with Aphrodite, has gained over 2.2 million views." IMPORTANT LIMIT: this establishes that architecture is drawn as tattoo subject matter and how one artist renders it. It establishes NO meaning for any building.

    professional tattoo source · published 2024-11-13 · retrieved 2026-08-30

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  • → outgoingFine LineStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_temple ('fine line'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattooing101_japanese_meanings; source_inkppl_eternal_architecture; the first is carried in source_id. 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.

  • → outgoingBlackworkStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_temple ('blackwork'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattooing101_japanese_meanings; source_inkppl_eternal_architecture; the first is carried in source_id. 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.