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Wind Bar

Kaze. THE SOURCE DESCRIBES THE DRAWN FORM EXACTLY, which almost nothing else in this sub-batch does: wind bars “are vertical lines (or sometimes swirls) of shading in Japanese tattooing”. A second Tier 2 source independently lists them among Japanese background elements. The node is named Wind Bar rather than Kaze because the generated ID from the source's primary English wording is the stable one; kaze is registered as an alias. SCOPE: the source is a Tier 2 professional-education page writing about JAPANESE TATTOOING, and the claim is scoped to that and to nothing wider. It is not a claim about Japanese religion, and it is not a universal reading of the element.
Attested
Medium confidenceneeds cultural review

2 attested · 3 promoted2 sources · T2

Also called Kaze

Cultural review required

This entry makes claims about a community's practice that nobody qualified has confirmed. Treat it as research in progress, not settled fact.

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
elemental
Variants
vertical lines; swirls
Common themes
nature
Cultural flags
meaning scoped to Japanese tattooing and asserted only by a Tier 2 source; no 'japanese' style label exists in this corpus - T11.6 refused irezumi as a style and routed it to T11.10 - so the style association both sources actually state CANNOT be expressed and common_styles is left blank rather than approximated with a style the sources do not name
Composition behaviors
background element used to make a design flow with the body; helps establish the S-shaped movement of a composition

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

  • Fox Tattoo Meaning: Cunning, Adaptability & Folklore Across Cultures (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    iNKPPL Tattoo Magazine

    Tattoo magazine meaning article. Verbatim: "Three words come up consistently: cunning, intelligence, adaptability."

    industry source · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

5 links

Can symbolize · 2

  • → outgoingChangeSymbolThin
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    Tier 2, scoped to Japanese tattooing: “Wind bars, or kaze, are vertical lines (or sometimes swirls) of shading in Japanese tattooing, they are often used to symbolize change and the impermanence of all things.” The word “often” is the source's and is why strength is 0.5. Confidence is low because ONE Tier 2 trade-education page is the whole evidence for a claim about a living tradition's visual language; no Tier 1 source in this corpus mentions wind bars at all.

  • → outgoingImpermanenceSymbolThin
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    Second half of the same sentence cited on rel_t118c_0010, and it is a separate meaning rather than a restatement: “change” is that conditions alter, “the impermanence of all things” is a claim about existence. Same Tier 2 limitation, same scope to Japanese tattooing.

Supports composition · 2

  • → outgoingBackground FieldCompositionThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_wind_bar ('background element used to make a design flow with the body') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattooing101_japanese_meanings; source_inkppl_fox; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.

  • → outgoingBody FlowCompositionThin
    strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_wind_bar ('helps establish the S-shaped movement of a composition') [class EC]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattooing101_japanese_meanings; source_inkppl_fox; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.

Associated with · 1

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

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_wind_bar ('nature'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattooing101_japanese_meanings; source_inkppl_fox; 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.